Case ID: so3d_162/html/1171-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "/s/ Jeannette Theriot Knoll Justice, Supreme Court Of Louisiana", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. Damien BROWN.
    No. 2014-KK-2478.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    March 6, 2015.
   ORDER

|T Granted. We find the District Court abuse its discretion in prematurely excluding evidence of the lost video for the reasons assigned in Judge Tobias’s dissent. We likewise find the District Court abused its discretion in excluding testimony of the witnesses who viewed the video as to its contents because there is substantial corroboration. The decision of the District court is hereby reversed, and we remand this matter for further proceedings.

JOHNSON, C.J., would grant in part and dissents in part.

/s/ Jeannette Theriot Knoll Justice, Supreme Court Of Louisiana