Supreme Court of Louisiana, 1989

State ex rel. Morrison v. Butler

State ex rel. Morrison v. Butler
Supreme Court of Louisiana · Decided April 7, 1989
541 So. 2d 841; 1989 La. LEXIS 1157; 1989 WL 32777 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

State ex rel. Morrison v. Butler

Opinion of the Court

In re Morrison, James; applying for supervisory and/or remedial writ; Parish of Orleans, Criminal District Court, Div. “C”, No. 233-762.

Granted. The district court is ordered to appoint counsel to represent relator and hold an evidentiary hearing at which relator will have the opportunity to establish, if he can, that his plea was induced in part by the state’s promise of a life sentence to be served concurrently with a previously imposed federal sentence, or a justifiable belief that such a promise existed. See, State v. Dixon, 449 So.2d 463 (La. 1984).

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