He’s been convicted of killing a man, accused of threatening at least one New Orleans judge, and he used a cell phone to send text messages from jail to Jason Williams, his former defense lawyer who is now the district attorney.
Keith Kisack has led a “life awash in crime,” prosecutors from Attorney General Liz Murrill’s office wrote recently.
But this week, a Louisiana Supreme Court majority agreed that Kisack’s life sentence — applied as a four-time felon under the state’s habitual offender law — was excessive even for a man with a lengthy felony record like his…