Marullo says older age limit applies to him

Frank Marullo isn’t quite ready to give up his title as Louisiana’s longest-serving judge.

The feisty Orleans Parish Criminal District Court jurist first took the bench five weeks after President Richard Nixon resigned in 1974.

And despite a mandatory age limit of 70 for judges under the Louisiana Constitution, Marullo, 74, is fingering an ace up his sleeve.

He believes the constitution doesn’t apply to him. Instead, he says, he falls under the state’s 1921 constitution, which at the time he was first elected had an age limit of 75 for judges — down from an earlier limit of 80.