Baton Rouge judge's son is back in court trying to clear his rape convictionsBATON ROUGE — Baton Rouge District Judge Gail Horne Ray’s son returned to court on Wednesday as he tries to have multiple nearly 30-year-old forcible rape charges and their sentences set aside, The Advocate reported. The Advocate reported that Wednesday’s hearing comes from Taylor’s motion that was filed in November, which was delayed after all of the 19th Judicial District Court judges recused themselves from the case last year over Taylor being Ray’s son. District Attorney Hillar Moore has also filed to recuse his office. The Louisiana Supreme Court assigned retired First Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Michael McDonald to handle the case, and Brett Sommer, an assistant district attorney from Livingston Parish, was assigned as the prosecutor. The 1997 plea avoided a life sentence for Taylor, then 17, with a judge giving him 50 years.