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

STATE of Louisiana v. Merald SAMPSON.
    No. 2002-KP-0909.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Feb. 14, 2003.
   PER CURIAM:

Writ granted; court of appeal order reversed; case remanded. Whatever the words used in its order, the district court was acting within its discretion when it in effect ordered supplementation of the timely-filed application for post-conviction relief, even if the supplementation were not to arrive until after the expiration of the prescriptive period. State ex rel. Duhon v. Whitley, 92-1740 (La.9/2/94), 642 So.2d 1273; cf. Muntz v. Lensing, 96-0230 (La.3/8/96), 668 So.2d 1147. Accordingly, the court of appeal order finding the application time-barred is reversed and the case is remanded to the district court for further proceedings consistent with its order of December 13, 2001.

CALOGERO, C.J., recused.