Case ID: so2d_459/html/0525-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DIXON, C.J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. Kevin BRANCH.
    No. 84-OK-2045.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Dec. 3, 1984.
   In re Branch, Kevin, applying for Stay, REMEDIAL WRIT AND OUT OF TIME APPEAL Court of Appeal, First Circuit, Number KA-84-1017; Parish of East Baton Rouge, 19th Judicial District Court, Div. “J”, Number 10-82-831.

Granted. Defendant’s appeal is reinstated in the Court of Appeal.

DIXON, C.J.,

concurs in the order of the Court. The right to appeal is a right granted under the Louisiana Constitution. The Code of Criminal Procedure establishes the method of taking an appeal. Courts should not thwart the right to appeal because a lawyer is tardy in filing a brief. Other measures for enforcing its rule are available to a court (such as contempt proceedings against the lawyer).