Two of the city’s oldest homicide cases — one 16 years old, the other 13 years old — were set for trial Monday in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, a familiar collision in the slowest section of one of the nation’s slowest courts .

But only one case — that of Kendall Harrison, accused in a 2012 killing in Algiers — moved ahead, after prosecutors said it should take priority. The other, against Keith Kisack, who was first charged in 2009, was pushed back yet again, the latest in a string of postponements that have kept it unresolved for more than a decade.

Monday’s proceedings underscore how long cases have been allowed to linger in Section J, where a Times-Picayune analysis found homicide prosecutions have stretched on longer than in any other section of court. They also show h

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