Criminal Cases in East Feliciana Parish Courts
The East Feliciana criminal docket is maintained through Louisiana’s 20th Judicial District Court. The court serves East and West Feliciana parishes, and its official site identifies the district’s judges, calendars, and operations. The East Feliciana Clerk of Court is legal custodian of the local district-court file. Felony prosecutions and state-law criminal matters filed in district court belong in that clerk record.
Municipal citations and mayor’s-court matters are different. Clinton, Jackson, Slaughter, Norwood, and Wilson may keep local ordinance or citation records through their own municipal offices. Failure to find a town ticket in the district docket does not prove it never existed. Likewise, a clerk case establishes what prosecutors filed and what the court did; it does not reproduce every detail of the arresting agency’s investigative report.
The 20th Judicial District Court’s official overview is the best starting point for confirming the court’s identity and calendar.
The East Feliciana Clerk Counter
The clerk counter at 12305 St. Helena Street in Clinton is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. A requester should provide a docket number when possible. With only a name, include an approximate filing year and use nonpublic identifiers with clerk staff to distinguish same-name defendants. Ask specifically for the charging instrument, minute entries, disposition, and sentencing minutes or judgment when a short docket label is unclear.
East Feliciana Clerk of Court
12305 St. Helena Street, Clinton, Louisiana
Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Official clerk website
The clerk’s official site identifies the office that holds the original local file.
How to Search Case Records
A careful search uses the remote index as a lead and the clerk file as the authority. Remote document images may require access credentials, payment, or a direct copy order, and older material may require staff help.
- Identify whether the matter belongs to the 20th JDC or a separate municipal court.
- Search by docket number when known; otherwise use the full name and approximate filing year.
- Ask whether the criminal index and document images are available through Clerk Connect or LCRAA and what access charge applies.
- Compare the arrest allegation, filed charge, amendments, disposition, and sentence instead of assuming they match.
- Order the bill of information or indictment, minute entries, disposition, and sentencing record from the clerk when certification or context matters.
The Clerk Connect portal is the documented remote-access channel associated with clerk records.
| Search item | Best use | Important limit |
|---|---|---|
| Case or docket number | Most precise route to one file | Must match the correct court |
| Full party name | Find a number when unknown | Same-name matches require verification |
| Approximate filing year | Narrow a broad name search | Arrest year and filing year may differ |
| Case type or division | Separate criminal from civil results | Municipal matters may be elsewhere |
Why Booking Charges Can Change
A jail charge records the allegation used at intake. The district attorney may accept it, decline it, amend it, reduce it, or file a different statutory count in a bill of information or indictment. Later pleas, dismissals, acquittals, or sentencing decisions can change the meaning again. For that reason, a booking label should never be copied into a summary as though it were the court’s final result.
The Louisiana clerks’ remote-access authority explains the statewide framework supporting participating clerk systems. Its official association site provides context for why local clerks remain the custodians even when a remote service displays an index.
What the Case File Shows
A public criminal file commonly combines header data, parties, charges, events, financial entries, and an index of filed documents. Not every field is public, and an index entry does not guarantee that its image can be downloaded.
| Header | Parish, court or division, docket number, filing date, case type, and status. |
|---|---|
| Parties | State of Louisiana, defendant display, counsel, and prosecutor where entered. |
| Charges | Count, statute, grade, offense date, amendment, and disposition. |
| Events | Filing, arraignment, motions, settings, plea, judgment, sentencing, and warrant or capias entries. |
| Financial | Costs, fines, restitution, or balances when public and enabled. |
| Documents | An index may list instruments whose images require a subscription or clerk purchase. |
| Restrictions | Identifiers, victim or minor information, juvenile matters, and sealed or expunged content may be unavailable. |
When the File Is at Mayor’s Court
Local citation activity may never become a 20th JDC criminal case. Clinton and Slaughter use QuickCourt interfaces that require identity and address details plus either a driver-license number or ticket number, but those tools locate and pay citations; they are not general criminal dockets. Jackson’s public minutes document Mayor’s Court ticket and bench-warrant activity without identifying a public case portal.
For a municipal disposition or warrant-clearance question, contact the town office that issued the citation. Ask for the ticket number, minutes, disposition, and current status. State-law felony files remain with the East Feliciana clerk, so a complete search may require both the town and district-court channels.
Copies, Certifications, and Minute Extracts
The verified East Feliciana fee schedule lists a $10 per-name parish criminal background check, $1 per page for a regular copy, $5 for a certified copy, and $15 for an extract of minutes. A parish name check is not a statewide criminal-history review. Tell the clerk exactly which document is needed and whether certification is required before paying.
| Clerk product | Verified fee | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Parish criminal background check | $10 per name | East Feliciana court records only |
| Regular copy | $1 per page | Uncertified file copy |
| Certified copy | $5 | Clerk-certified record |
| Extract of minutes | $15 | Formal extract of court minutes |
The clerk’s criminal filing and record-fee page is the controlling source for these amounts.
Stages of a Criminal Case
The docket is a timeline, not a single verdict field. Entries should be read in order because a scheduled event can be continued and an original charge can be amended before disposition.
District 20 Defense Records Context
The District 20 public defender office is a separate justice-system office, not the custodian of the court docket. District Defender Rhonda Covington’s office is at 12213 Jackson Street, phone 225-683-3620, open Monday through Thursday 8 a.m.-5 p.m. and Friday 8 a.m.-noon. Its published profile reports 789 people represented in calendar year 2025. That figure describes representation, not convictions or unique court filings.
The Louisiana public defender’s District 20 profile verifies the local office and hours.
Access & Restrictions
Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure article 251 makes the clerk legal custodian and generally allows examination and copying during office hours, subject to lawful restrictions. It also limits the use of privately owned scanning or copying equipment in a clerk’s office absent a court order, so visitors should not assume they may photograph an entire file with a phone.
Juvenile, sealed, and expunged material may be missing from public search results. Expungement removes eligible records from public access rather than destroying them; authorized criminal-justice agencies and other statutory users can retain access. A missing public result therefore cannot prove that an event never occurred. For a suspected incomplete state record, obtain an original certified disposition and use Louisiana State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information correction procedures.