Case ID: so2d_311/html/0260-03.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 ex rel. Elvin Leroy PRIMAS v. C. Murray HENDERSON, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary.
    No. 56139.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    April 25, 1975.
   In re: Elvin Leroy Primas applying for supervisory writ of certiorari.

Alternative Writ Granted — The State is ordered to set aside guilty pleas and rear-raign relator under showing that relator was denied choice of counsel and was represented by counsel under a capital charge who was not qualified to serve in capital cases, or to show cause to the contrary on or before May 23, 1975.

SANDERS, C. J., dissents from this writ. The showing made is insufficient.

SUMMERS, J.,

dissents. The trial judge found the evidence which this Court relies upon “totally unbelievable” insofar as applicant is concerned. There is no requirement in the law which violates a guilty plea which is promptly entered; nor does the law require that counsel have more than five years experience to represent an accused at a plea of guilty in a non-capital case.