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| BAR / DISCIPLINARY / ETHICS
| | 1. | District judge removed from office for intoxication.
In re Monty L. Doggett, 2004-O-0319 (La. 5/25/04) [20 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 12, Issue 6 Judge Monty L. Doggett of the 10th Judicial District Court, Parish of Natchitoches, was elected to judicial office in 1996, and was re-e... view full summary | | EVIDENCE
| | 2. | Criminal trespass while taking surveillance video not grounds for exclusion of tape.
Scott v. Poole's Classic Travels, Inc., 2003-C-2748 (La. 5/25/04) [8 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 12, Issue 6 Plaintiff filed this suit to recover damages for personal injuries he allegedly suffered when a bus owned by defendant rear-ended plaintiff'... view full summary | | WORKERS' COMPENSATION
| | 3. | Employer-employee compensation reimbursement agreement unenforceable.
Jones v. General Motors Corporation, 2003-C-1766 (La. 4/20/04) [20 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 12, Issue 6 Claimant Alma M. Jones sustained a work-related injury at the General Motors Corporation assembly plant in Shreveport on January 15, 1999, n... view full summary | | CRIMINAL
| | 4. | Brady violation results in reversal of murder conviction.
State v. Bright, 02-KP-2793 (La. 5/25/04) [11 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 12, Issue 6 Defendant was convicted and sentenced to life in 1996 for a murder during an armed robbery at a bar. The only evidence linking defendant wit... view full summary | | 5. | Request for extradition of out-of-state defendant, without more, does not interrupt prescription of prosecution.
State v. Thomas Bobo, 2003-KK-2362 (La. 4/30/04) [17 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 12, Issue 6 In September and October, 1998, Thomas Bobo, living in Stafford, Texas, sold heroin by mail to an individual in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. ... view full summary | | 6. | Circumstantial evidence and jailhouse informant sufficient to convict; capital sentence affirmed.
State v. Darrell James Robinson, 2002-KA-1869 (La. 4/14/04) [36 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 12, Issue 5 Defendant was found guilty by a jury on four counts of first degree murder, and sentenced to death, for the shooting deaths of his former drinking companion Billy Lambert, Lambert's sister Carol Hoop... view full summary | | 7. | Habitual offender hearings: State must be given notice of alleged defects in prior conviction.
State v. Townsend, 04-K-0005 (La. 4/23/04) [2 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 12, Issue 5 "Granted. We assume for present purposes that the court of appeal correctly found that the documentary evidence introduced by the state at the habitual offender hearing to carry its initial burden un... view full summary | | 8. | Guilty plea suspends the running of the time to try the defendant.
State v. Allen, 2003-KK-2815 (La. 4/23/04) [11 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 12, Issue 5 Defendant and an accomplice were charged with attempted murder. Four months after he was charged, defendant entered a plea of guilty in return for his testimony against the accomplice. Eight months l... view full summary | | 9. | Error to restrict cross-examination regarding pending criminal charges and plea agreements with the State.
State v. Burbank, 02-K-1407 (La. 4/23/04) [4 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 12, Issue 5 Defendant Burbank appeals his conviction of murder. At trial, the district court sustained the State's objections to defense cross-examination seeking to prove that (1) the State's witness, Cassandra... view full summary | | 10. | Gun by defendant's feet in a car sufficient to prove possession of firearm.
State v. Johnson, 03-K-1228 (La. 4/14/04) [12 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 12, Issue 5 Defendant was convicted of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. On the night of the arrest, police were answering a disturbance complaint at a motel when they noticed a small child standing ... view full summary | | 11. | Breach of "open file" discovery agreement was harmless error.
State v. Garrick, 2003-K-0137 (La. 4/14/04) [9 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 12, Issue 5 Defendant appeals his conviction of armed robbery. Defendant's two companions, Guidry and Kelly, robbed a bank while defendant waited in the car. Defendant gave a statement to police that he was an i... view full summary | | STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
| | 12. | Legislative pay raise for certain classified civil servants unconstitutional.
State Civil Service Commission v. Director, Dept. of Public Safety, 2003-CA-1702 (La. 4/4/04) [20 pp.]
From LSCR Volume 12, Issue 5 The Louisiana Legislature, in July, 1999, enacted La.R.S. S 33:2218.2(a)(2)(A), which authorized supplemental pay of $300 a month by the state to law enforcement officers working within the boundarie... view full summary |
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