State ex rel. Koon v. Cain

Supreme Court of Louisiana
State ex rel. Koon v. Cain, 760 So. 2d 308 (La. 2000)
2000 La. LEXIS 972; 2000 WL 310326
Calogero, Grant, Johnson, Kimball, Lemmon, Reasons, Stay

State ex rel. Koon v. Cain

Dissenting Opinion

CALOGERO, C.J.,

dissenting from the court’s refusal to grant a stay of the hearing scheduled for tomorrow.

It is my preference that we stay the hearing set for tomorrow until this Court has had a more adequate opportunity to study defendant’s application, an application that was filed just hours ago. However, I write to express my appreciation of what the court’s action today portends for the hearing. As I appreciate it, the district court judge, while not required to permit defendant to subpoena multiple witnesses for tomorrow’s hearing, anticipates determining whether to permit additional witnesses, and. which ones, in connection with the post-conviction application, after testimony is taken from the two lawyers who represented defendant at trial.

Opinion of the Court

In re Koon, Walter Joseph; — Plaintiff; Applying for Supervisory and/or Remedial *309Writs, Parish of E. Baton Rouge, 19th Judicial District Court, Div. L., No. 3-93-1268.

Stay denied. Writ denied.

KIMBALL, J., not on panel. CALOGERO, C.J., would grant the stay and assigns reasons. LEMMON and JOHNSON, JJ., would grant a stay.

Reference

Full Case Name
STATE ex rel. Walter Joseph KOON v. Burl CAIN, Warden
Status
Published