State ex rel. Jones v. State
Supreme Court of Louisiana
State ex rel. Jones v. State, 71 So. 3d 269 (La. 2011)
2011 La. LEXIS 2280
Clark, Deny, Knoll, Victory
State ex rel. Jones v. State
Opinion of the Court
In re Jones, Craig; — Plaintiff; Applying For Supervisory and/or Remedial Writs, Parish of St. Martin, 16th Judicial District Court Div. C, No. 10-239261; to the Court of Appeal, Third Circuit, No. KH 11-00675.
Granted for the sole purpose of remanding the case to the district court and ordering it to rule on the merits of relator’s pro se motion for bond reduction. See State v. Melon, 95-2209 (La.9/22/95), 660 So.2d 466, 467 (“[L]ower courts must ... accept and consider [pro se] filings from represented defendants in a pre-verdict context whenever doing so will not lead to confusion at trial”).
Reference
- Full Case Name
- STATE ex rel. Craig JONES v. STATE of Louisiana
- Status
- Published