Case ID: so2d_352/html/0236-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DENNIS, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. Sawyer LEWIS.
    No. 60817.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Nov. 23, 1977.
   In re: Sawyer Lewis applying for writs of certiorari, mandamus and prohibition.

Writ denied. We cannot say the ruling was incorrect.

TATE, J., is of the opinion the writ should be granted.

DENNIS, J.,

is of the opinion the writ should be granted. In view of the facts that the defendant was faced with a life sentence, without parole etc., which he subsequently received, and that the state’s case was based upon an apparent illegal seizure which the defendant’s attorney failed to move to suppress, the defendant was denied effective assistance of counsel.