Case ID: so2d_642/html/1285-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "WATSON, J., LEMMON, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. Manuel ORTIZ.
    No. 94-KK-2368.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Sept. 19, 1994.
   In re Ortiz, Manuel; — Defendant(s); applying for supervisory and/or remedial ■writs; Parish of Jefferson, 24th Judicial District Court, Div. “B”, No. 92-6496; to the Court of Appeal, Fifth Circuit, No. 94-KW-0760.

Denied.

WATSON, J.,

concurs, believing the evidence is admissible in part under the general rules of evidence but not as Prieur evidence.

LEMMON, J.,

dissents in part. Evidence of automobile insurance fraud is not relevant for any independent purpose in the murder case. Although the murder was allegedly committed to collect insurance, the fact of a prior fraudulent insurance claim does. not tend to prove any element of the murder case, but is highly prejudicial.

CALOGERO, C.J., not on panel; recused.