BATON ROUGE — A Baton Rouge judge's son and convicted rapist has had the district attorney and most of the sitting 19th JDC judges recuse themselves from his 2024 obscenity case, court records show.

Nelson Dan Taylor, 45, was arrested in October 2024 for allegedly exposing himself to a maid at a St. George hotel. Taylor, the son of 19th Judicial District Judge Gail Horne Ray, was on probation until 2036 for a 1997 rape conviction.

Judges Donald Johnson, Ronald Johnson, Eboni Johnson Rose and Colette Greggs all previously recused themselves from Taylor's case earlier this year, citing a conflict of interest due to Taylor's mother also sitting on the bench in the 19th JDC.

Ray also signed a recusal order from her son's case on Monday.

On Monday, all but one of the remaining judges — B

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