Clashes between opposing attorneys compelled an East Baton Rouge judge to hold three attorneys in contempt of court for actions taken during the murder trial of a man convicted this week of killing his ex-girlfriend and her new lover.

A jury deliberated about 2½ hours before finding Brian Alexander Lavergne guilty of two counts of second-degree murder Monday night in the January 2021 double homicide. The verdict culminated an explosive six-day trial that saw presiding District Judge Louise Hines Myers toss one of Lavergne’s attorneys out of the courtroom midway through and bar that attorney from re-entering throughout the remainder of the trial. She also cited the defendant’s lead attorney for several counts of contempt and held the prosecutor who argued for Lavergne’s conviction in conte

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