LOUISIANA
The Advocate
by Robert Stewart
Advocate staff writer
April 15, 2012
J. Nathan Stansbury, a district attorney for 22 years in the Lafayette area, died Saturday morning.
He was 76.
Stansbury served as district attorney for the 15th Judicial District, which covers Lafayette, Acadia and Vermilion parishes.
Stansbury prosecuted Dalton Prejean, who eventually was convicted of shooting and killing State Trooper Donald Cleveland in 1977. Prejean was executed in 1990.
Stansbury also helped arrange a 20-year plea deal sentence in 1985 for the Rev. Gilbert Gauthe, a former Lafayette Catholic priest who served about half of that sentence for 33 sex-related criminal charges involving 11 of his former altar boys.
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