Case ID: so2d_348/html/0683-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "SUMMERS, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. John Paul KIMBLE.
    No. 60371.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    July 28, 1977.
   In re: John Paul Kimble applying for writs of certiorari, prohibition, mandamus and stay order.

Writ denied as to Assignment of Error No. 1 (trial judge’s denial of motion to quash subpoena). In regard to Assignment of Error No. 2 (production of Photographs prior to trial), trial is stayed until further orders of this court so that matter can be considered by a full court unless the district attorney elects to make the photographs available to the defense under supervision of the court prior to trial.

SUMMERS, J.,

dissents. This dubious decree is a bald faced attempt by the court to intimidate the prosecutor into granting pretrial discovery in this child abuse case which will certainly degenerate if delayed. By this decree the court takes no affirmative position in the matter.