Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Ricky FUGLER
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2010-09-17
Citations: 45 So. 3d 1060
Docket Number: No. 2009-KP-1822
Parties: STATE of Louisiana v. Ricky FUGLER.
Judges: WEIMER, J., would deny.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 45
Pages: 1060–1060

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana v. Ricky FUGLER.
No. 2009-KP-1822.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
Sept. 17, 2010.

Opinion:
In re State of Louisiana; — Plaintiff; Applying For Supervisory and/or Remedial Writs, Parish of E. Baton Rouge, 19th Judicial District Court Div. B, No. 08-95-1446; to the Court of Appeal, First Circuit, No. 2009 KW 0470.
Granted. The district's court ruling setting relator's motion for reconsideration of sentence for a hearing is vacated and the court's sentence of 50 years imprisonment at hard labor, imposed in 1996, is reinstated. Although filed timely, see La.C.Cr.P. art. 881.1, relator abandoned his motion for reconsideration of sentence when he failed to move for a hearing date for over 12 years. See, e.g., State v. Wagster, 361 So.2d 849, 856 (La.1978) ("[I]t is ordinarily incumbent upon the proponent of a motion to move for a hearing date on that motion. Otherwise it may be considered that the motion has been abandoned.").
WEIMER, J., would deny.