Retired judge's son released early from prison under new law

BATON ROUGE- A retired judge's son who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for stealing cocaine and guns from an evidence vault inside the courthouse where he and his mother worked has been released after serving five years.News outlets report the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections spokesman Ken Pastorick said Monday that 35-year-old William Bates Colvin was released Nov. 1. Colvin was one of more than 1,900 convicted inmates released under new Louisiana law Act 280, which re