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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE ex rel. Gregory BRIGHT v. STATE of Louisiana.
    No. 96-KH-2537.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Oct. 31, 1997.
   PER CURIAM.

Writ granted. The district court judge who denied relator’s petition for post-conviction relief prosecuted relator for the instant crime over twenty years ago. Although this appears to have been inadvertent, he should have been recused from the post-conviction relief proceeding. La.Code Crim.P. art. 671(A)(3). Therefore, the trial court’s ruling on the relator’s application for post-eonvietion relief is vacated. This case is remanded to the district court for reassignment to another judge to rule on relator’s application for post-conviction relief. 
      
       Kimball, J., not on panel. Rule IV, Part 2, § 3.