Case ID: so3d_164/html/0829-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "CRICHTON, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. Walter URENA.
    No. 2014-K-1603.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    April 10, 2015.
   Applying For Writ of Certiorari and/or Review, Parish of Rapides, 9th Judicial District Court Div. B, No. 309,898; to the Court of Appeal, Third Circuit, No. 13-1286.

|!Writ denied.

CRICHTON, J., additionally concurs and assigns reasons.

CRICHTON, J.,

additionally concurs and assigns reasons.

hi concur in the denial of this writ application. I write separately to caution prosecutors against relying on generic charges in an indictment, because such charges could compromise the defendant’s due process rights. See, e.g., Russell v. United States, 369 U.S. 749, 763, 82 S.Ct. 1038, 8 L.Ed.2d 240 (1962) (due process requires that an indictment “sufficiently apprises, the defendant of what he must be prepared to meet”); Hamling v. United States, 418 U.S. 87, 117, 94 S.Ct. 2887, 41 L.Ed.2d 590 (1974) (an indictment is sufficient if it enables a defendant “to plead an acquittal or conviction in bar of future prosecutions for the same offense”).