Case ID: so2d_409/html/1226-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LEMMON, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. Angelo TROSCLAIR, III.
    No. 82-K-0209.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Jan. 25, 1982.
   In Re: Angelo Trosclair, III, applying for Writs of Certiorari, Mandamus, Prohibition and Stay Order, Orleans Parish, No. 282-580.

Granted. It is ordered that the defense lawyer not be placed on the stand. On the showing made, there is no necessity to place the defense lawyer on the stand. On the showing made by the defendant in support of his motion in arrest of judgment, as set forth in this application, the motion in arrest of judgment is without merit.

BLANCHE, J., would deny the writ.

LEMMON, J.,

concurs. The defendant bears the burden of proving his waiver of a jury trial was not knowingly made, and proof of lack of a colloquy on the record does not meet this burden. The State, therefore, need not question defendant’s trial attorney at this time, and it is not necessary for us now to pass on the propriety of calling that attorney to the stand.