Case ID: so2d_729/html/1024-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "CALOGERO, C.J. and KIMBALL, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. Douglas WHITTON.
    No. 99-KK-0501.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Feb. 23, 1999.
   In re: Whitton, Douglas; -Defendant(s); Applying for Supervisory and/or Remedial Writ; Parish of Orleans Criminal District Court Div. “G” Number 393-356; to the Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit, Number 99KW-0437.

Denied.

CALOGERO, C.J., and KIMBALL, J., would grant the writ and issue an order.

LEMMON, J., would grant the stay and the application, and docket the case for argument.

VICTORY, J., not on.panel.

ON APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI AND EMERGENCY STAY ORDER

CALOGERO, C.J. and KIMBALL, J.

would grant and issue an order as follows:

Defendant shall proceed to trial with a plea of not guilty. The trial court is ordered to allow defendant to present psychiatric evidence of any “substance induced memory blackout” at the time of his interrogation and confession, in accordance with La.Code Crim.P. art. 703, subject to a limiting instruction that the jury is not to consider this evidence as having any bearing on defendant’s mental capacity at the time of the offense.