This northshore DA is now leading Liz Murrill’s indictment probe. ‘I’m going to do a thorough job.’

Northshore District Attorney Collin Sims was already plenty busy.

Since taking office in 2023, he has overseen more than 9,000 felony prosecutions in his 125-person office and formed two task forces with state and federal agencies. He began prosecuting the Mayor of Bogalusa. He is a regular attendee at St. Tammany political events. And he’s been relentless in pursuing funding for northshore public safety agencies.

But in August, he added another big assignment, the highest-profile one yet: the Louisiana Supreme Court named him special prosecutor in the criminal investigation of how Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill came to be indicted by an Orleans Parish grand jury…

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