Supreme Court of Louisiana, 1999

State ex rel. Soublet v. State

State ex rel. Soublet v. State
Supreme Court of Louisiana · Decided June 18, 1999 · Lemmon
745 So. 2d 611; 1999 La. LEXIS 1840; 1999 WL 506344 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

State ex rel. Soublet v. State

Opinion of the Court

IN RE: Soublet, Albert; — Plaintiff(s); Applying for Supervisory and/or Remedial *612Writ; Parish of Orleans Criminal District Court Div. “G” Number 268-481; to the Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit, Number 98KW-0036

Writ granted in part; otherwise denied; ease remanded to the district court. The district court is ordered to appoint counsel for relator for purposes of conducting an evidentiary hearing at which it will determine whether relator was wearing identifiable prison garb at trial, and if so, whether his attorneys failure timely to raise the issue at trial constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel under the standard set out in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984).

LEMMON, J., not on panel.

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