STATE OF LOUISIANA COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 2021 Kw 0544 VERSUS

RICKEY LIONEL LAURANT JULY 30, 2021

In Re: Rickey Lionel Laurant, applying for supervisory writs, 22nd Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Tammany, No. 517, 140.

BEFORE: THERIOT, HOLDRIDGE, AND HESTER, JJ.

WRIT DENIED.

MRT CHH

Holdridge, J., dissents and would stay the matter. The decision whether to apply Ramos v. Louisiana, _ U. S. _, 140 S. Ct. 1390, 206 L. Ed. 2d 583 ( 2020) retroactively and grant postconviction relief on state collateral review to defendants convicted by non - unanimous juries in all or certain circumstances remains with the Louisiana Supreme Court. A state court may give broader effect to new rules of criminal procedure than is required by the relevant opinion. See Danforth v. Minnesota, 552 U. S. 264, 128 S. Ct. 1029, 169 L. Ed. 2d 859 ( 2008).

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