Lafourche Parish Courthouse

This is a courthouse that looks like a courthouse should from the outside. Stately, imposing and all around great architecture…
Located in the old downtown area of Thibodaux, if you’re on W 3^rd Street you can see it and all its imposing glory clearly. Once you step through the doors be ready to do the metal detector cha-​cha… I’m pretty sure the only folks that get to bypass it are the one’s with badges on their shirts and guns on their hips… maybe the local lawyers get to skip it but if you’re not a regular or a John Law be prepared…
Gives off a nice turn of the last century vibe… all my business was conducted on the 1^st floor and like most old school courthouses it is a small space. I was in Division A and two other of the 5 total divisions are located in the main courthouse (3 total) and the other 2 divisions are located in the Annex across the street… They have a helpful sign on the main doors posted to let you know in which building each division is located…
All 3 courtrooms are located on the 1^st floor and I expect all 3 courtrooms are small if my experience with Division A is any guide but even though small you get that courtroom sense of gravitas from the hard backed church pews in the gallery to the judge’s bench…
On the day I was there myself, the other lawyers and the gallery got quite the treat as the Judge had to conduct his criminal 72 hour hearings which he did via Skype and we got to watch on the 2 flat screen TVs in the courtroom… a real motley crew of society was paraded on the screen with everything from warrants on failure to pay child support ($ 12K in arrears) to Possession with Intent (Dude had 10 baggies of Weed in his left pocket but only 1 baggie in his right pocket… left pocket must have been deeper than the right I guess) to a young lady and her boyfriend charged with burglary of her family’s business (The Dairy Cool fyi) but those 2 really stepped in it cause when the 5 – 0 showed up to arrest them they had meth and weed in plain sight with minor children in the house… That’s not good! So those 2 had a laundry list of charges not even connected to the main crime… So all in all it was an interesting wait…
Again though if you end up inside this building it usually isn’t for something fun but if your in Thibodaux head down and enjoy a view of the building and maybe the grounds as you walk around old downtown…