Case ID: so2d_747/html/0487-01.html
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Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM.\n     JOHNSON, Justice, LEMMON, Justice,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE ex rel. Dobie Gillis WILLIAMS v. STATE of Louisiana.
    No. 98-KD-1643.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    June 17, 1998.
    Reconsideration Denied June 18, 1998.
   PER CURIAM.

The application is denied. When a federal or state district court grants a stay of execution but the order is immediately reversed by the appellate court on the basis that the district court lacked authority, La.Rev.Stat. 15:567 C does not require the setting of a new execution date; the execution may proceed on the date originally fixed.

The merits of relator’s post-conviction application should be addressed to the federal courts.

JOHNSON, J., dissents.

JOHNSON, Justice,

dissenting.

I am of the opinion that R.S. 15:567(C) requires that a new execution date be sent.

ON RECONSIDERATION

Reconsideration Denied.

LEMMON, J., concurs and assigns reasons.

JOHNSON, J., would grant reconsideration.

CALOGERO, C.J., not on panel.

LEMMON, Justice,

concurring.

The purpose of La.Rev.Stat. 15:567 C is to provide the time period for setting a new execution date when such action is necessary; the purpose is not to necessitate a new execution date when the original execution date is reinstated by reversal of an order that stayed the execution on the originally fixed date. 
      
       Calogero, C.J., not on panel.