Case ID: so2d_451/html/1192-01.html
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Author: {"author": "BOUTALL, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. Mark O’CONNER.
    No. 84-K-200.
    Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.
    May 30, 1984.
    Writ Denied June 25, 1984.
    Mark McTernan, McTernan, Parr & Ru-mage, New Orleans, for relator Mark O’Conner.
    William C. Credo, III, Asst. Dist. Atty., Gretna, for respondent State of Louisiana.
    Before BOUTALL, BOWES and DU-FRESNE, JJ.
   BOUTALL, Judge.

Applicant was charged in First Parish Court for the Parish of Jefferson with the crime of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant, LRS 14:98.

Prior to trial applicant filed a motion demanding a jury trial which was denied by the trial judge. Applicant has applied to us for supervisory writs to annul the judge’s denial of jury trial and to order a jury trial held.

We have discussed this issue of entitlement to jury trial at length in State of Louisiana v. Vieto, — So.2d - (La.1984). For the reasons therein expressed we conclude the ruling complained of is correct.

Writs refused.