A defense attorney believes
Bossier City police misconduct played a role in the yearlong incarceration of a
man who now is no longer accused in a murder that took place almost two years
ago. Attorney Elton Richey alleges
the police department is not being forthcoming about the use of a live lineup
that produced another suspect in the July 23, 2011, shooting death of James
Dean Smith, 21, of Vivian. Police officers testifying at a pretrial hearing in
January denied the use of a live lineup. But the state’s primary witness, Tyler
Quandt, testified that he picked Michael Ray Madden Jr., 27, out of a live
lineup conducted at the Bossier City Police Department days after Smith’s
shooting death. And the victim’s sister, Amy Smith, also testified she
accompanied Quandt to the police station and remained in another room while it
took place.