Ironically, I was driving by Memorial Medical Center when I heard the news that Dr. Anna Pou wouldn’t be indicted. Thanks to the good judgment of a grand jury, Dr. Pou can get off of her knees now, and get back to serving and praying for her patients.

For Attorney General Charles Foti, it’s back to the wet bar, where he can sulk over his failed year-long prosecution against some of this city’s greatest heroes during Hurricane Katrina — Dr. Anna Pou, Lori Budo, and Cheri Landry — and where he can plot new ways to continue his campaign of defamation, because even though a grand jury refused to indict, Foti is still calling them murderers. Foti would know all too well how to prepare a lethal cocktail, wouldn’t he?

Foti was lucky he wasn’t worked over by his own criminal sheriff’s deputies for DUI — which could have been fatal.

Because of Foti’s forced perp-walk of the doctor and nurses, TV appearances, and defamation campaign, Dr. Pou, and nurses Budo and Landry, still face civil suits, and their legal expenses preparing a defense are estimated to run up to a million dollars each.

Jason Berry provided the best explanation I’ve heard for Foti’s blunder — he hadn’t been a prosecutor for over thirty years before deciding to arrest Dr. Pou and the nurses … that, plus a little political ambition is a bad mixer. Maybe the A.G. should take a law school refresher, but then again, we won’t have to put up with him for very much longer after we vote him out of office.

There remains another instance of a breach of justice committed by Foti which remains uncorrected. It’s one of the first People Get Ready stories (HT: BMP), which was followed by this exclusive radio feature. Justice remains out of reach for Willie Fontenot.

I was planning to post a series of photos I took at last week’s rally for Dr. Pou in City Park sometime this week. I’m glad that’s no longer necessary.

Here’s one of my favorites. This guy’s dog is named … Condaleeza Rice. There is a slight resemblance, but this lady has a nice smile, whereas Condie scowls like a mean bee-yatch.