A Baton Rouge judge Tuesday rescinded a contempt order she placed on a state prosecutor after reviewing notes and transcripts from a recent murder trial.

District Judge Louise Hines Myers held three attorneys in contempt of court and kicked one of them out of the courtroom midway through the retrial of Brian Alexander Lavergne. The explosive six-day trial ended Aug. 25 with a jury finding Lavergne guilty of double homicide in the 2021 killings of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend.

State prosecutors clashed with the defendant's attorneys along the way, and it led to Hines Myers, who presided over the trial, to issue her contempt orders. On Aug. 21, during the second day of testimony, she had La'Deisha Woods, the second prong of Lavergne's legal team, removed from the courtroom a

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