Hugo Holland, a controversial former Caddo Parish prosecutor in northwest Louisiana who was exposed for concealing evidence in three death penalty cases, was on track to win an open seat on the state’s First Judicial District Court this summer.
Despite his history of racially offensive remarks, including comparing a teenage Black defendant in a capital murder case to a dog, Holland, a Republican, faced no opponent and collected hefty campaign donations from prominent attorneys and former state judges in the deeply conservative region…