State ex rel. Alexander v. State

Supreme Court of Louisiana
State ex rel. Alexander v. State, 71 So. 3d 269 (La. 2011)
2011 La. LEXIS 2275; 2011 WL 4644912
Clark, Deny, Knoll, Victory

State ex rel. Alexander v. State

Opinion of the Court

In re Alexander, Brandon; — Plaintiff; Applying For Supervisory and/or Remedial Writs, Parish of St. Martin, 16th Judicial District Court Div. C, No. 10-239080; to the Court of Appeal, Third Circuit, No. KH 11-00738.

Granted for the sole purpose of remanding the case to the district court and or*270dering it to rule on the merits of relator’s pro se motions. 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”).

VICTORY, KNOLL and CLARK, JJ., would deny.

Reference

Full Case Name
STATE ex rel. Brandon ALEXANDER v. STATE of Louisiana
Status
Published