Case ID: so2d_740/html/0613-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "KNOLL Justice,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. Warren ACOSTA.
    No. 99-KK-2123.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    July 26, 1999.
   IN RE: Acosta, Warren; — Defendant(s); applying for supervisory and/or remedial writs; Parish of Jefferson 24th Judicial District Court Div. “K” Number 98-3612; to the Court of Appeal, Fifth Circuit, Number 99-K-709.

Stay granted. Writ granted and remanded to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for briefing, argument, and opinion in light of State v. Strain, 585 So.2d 540 (La.1991) and State v. Carlos, 98-KK-1366, 738 So.2d 556 (La.1999).

CALOGERO, C.J. not on panel.

JOHNSON, J. dissents for the reasons assigned by Justice KNOLL.

KNOLL, J. dissents with reasons.

KNOLL Justice,

dissenting.

Considering that the State failed to introduce proper evidence to support a valid predicate conviction for defendant’s third DWI conviction, the trial court’s order denying the defendant’s motion to suppress evidence of this conviction should be reversed and the evidence should be suppressed. However, as to the remaining convictions, under a totality of the circumstances, State v. Strain, 585 So.2d 540, 543 (La.1991), I would deny the writ as it applies to those two predicate convictions. Accordingly, I would grant the .writ in part, deny the writ in part, and remand the case to the trial court for further proceedings.