BATON ROUGE, LA – East Baton Rouge Parish Superintendent Lamont Cole has asked a judge to throw out his recent indictment, citing a rarely challenged Louisiana law that prohibits residents from being burdened with serious legal matters once LSU football season is within two weeks of kickoff.
Cole’s attorneys invoked Louisiana’s LSU Football Season Immunity Act, which legal scholars believe was quietly added to the state constitution sometime during the Les Miles administration.
“This is bigger than Mr. Cole,” his attorneys argued. “The people of Baton Rouge deserve to focus exclusively on whether LSU can win a national championship without unnecessary distractions like these sham indictments.”
Under the law, indictments, divorces, property disputes and most child support hearings must be postponed until LSU has no path to making the playoffs.
Attorney General Liz Murrill immediately challenged the motion, arguing no such law exists.
Cole’s attorneys acknowledged that possibility but asked the judge to consider the spirit of the law anyway.
Lawmakers are reportedly considering extending the immunity through the entire year if LSU starts 5-0, arguing nobody should risk disrupting that kind of momentum.
