Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Bruce Alvin ROBERTSON
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2019-05-20
Citations: 271 So. 3d 190
Docket Number: No. 2018-KH-1006
Parties: STATE of Louisiana
v.
Bruce Alvin ROBERTSON
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 271
Pages: 190–190

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana
v.
Bruce Alvin ROBERTSON
No. 2018-KH-1006
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
May 20, 2019
ON SUPERVISORY WRITS TO THE NINETEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Writ granted. The case is remanded to the district court for merits consideration. Applicant's claimed violation of Brady v. Maryland , 373 U.S. 83, 83 S.Ct. 1194, 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963), overcomes the procedural bars of La.C.Cr.P. arts. 930.4(E) and 930.8(A) pursuant to the exception set out in La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.8(A)(1). See State ex rel. Cormier v. State , 98-2111 (La. 12/18/98), 731 So.2d 274 ("[T]he discovery of new evidence excepting a claim from the prescriptive period of La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.8 would necessarily except a claim from the repetitiveness bars of La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.4 .").