STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 25-KH-384 VERSUS FIFTH CIRCUIT BRANDON L. PIKE COURT OF APPEAL STATE OF LOUISIANA

August 26, 2025 Linda Tran First Deputy Clerk

IN RE BRANDON L. PIKE APPLYING FOR SUPERVISORY WRIT FROM THE TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, DIRECTED TO THE HONORABLE DONALD A.

ROWAN, JR., DIVISION "L", NUMBER 17-661

Panel composed of Judges Susan M. Chehardy, Fredericka Homberg Wicker, and Jude G. Gravois

WRIT DENIED Relator, Brandon L. Pike, applied to this Court seeking mandamus relief in light of the district court’s alleged failure to rule on his “Motion for Out-of-Time Appeal.” Finding that Mr. Pike’s request for mandamus relief is moot, we deny the writ application.

On May 2, 2024, following a multiple bill hearing, Mr. Pike was adjudicated a second felony offender and was given an enhanced sentence of sixty years imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence for aggravated burglary, and ordered that this sentence be served consecutively with Mr. Pike’s eight-year sentence for second degree battery imposed on March 16, 2018.

In the instant application seeking mandamus relief, Mr. Pike contends that on October 20, 2024, he mailed a Motion for Out-of-Time Appeal to the district court, but that to date, the district court has failed to rule on his motion. However, 25-KH-384 the record reflects that on November 13, 2024, the district court granted Mr. Pike’s Motion for Out-of-Time Appeal and that, on January 27, 2025, the Louisiana Appellate Project informed the district court that Michael Idoyaga was assigned as appellate counsel for Mr. Pike. The record further reflects that an appeal was lodged in this Court on behalf of Mr. Pike on February 4, 2025, under case number 25-KA-47, State of Louisiana versus Brandon L. Pike; an appellate brief challenging the excessiveness of the sixty-year sentence was filed on April 2, 2025, by Mr. Idoyaga, appointed counsel for Mr. Pike; and, the matter is currently set on this Court’s docket for October 8, 2025.

Accordingly, the relief Mr. Pike requests is denied as moot.

Gretna, Louisiana, this 26th day of August, 2025.

SMC FHW JGG

SUSAN M. CHEHARDY CURTIS B. PURSELL CHIEF JUDGE CLERK OF COURT

SUSAN S. BUCHHOLZ FREDERICKA H. WICKER CHIEF DEPUTY CLERK JUDE G. GRAVOIS MARC E. JOHNSON STEPHEN J. WINDHORST LINDA M. TRAN JOHN J. MOLAISON, JR. FIRST DEPUTY CLERK SCOTT U. SCHLEGEL TIMOTHY S. MARCEL FIFTH CIRCUIT MELISSA C. LEDET JUDGES 101 DERBIGNY STREET (70053) DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL STAFF POST OFFICE BOX 489 GRETNA, LOUISIANA 70054 (504) 376-1400 (504) 376-1498 FAX www.fifthcircuit.org

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25-KH-384 E-NOTIFIED 24th Judicial District Court (Clerk) Honorable Donald A. Rowan, Jr. (DISTRICT JUDGE) Thomas J. Butler (Respondent) MAILED Brandon L. Pike #370521 (Relator) Dixon Correctional Institute Post Office Box 788 Jackson, LA 70748