Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Mitchell BROOKS
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2002-03-08
Citations: 810 So. 2d 1150
Docket Number: No. 2001-KH-1842
Parties: STATE of Louisiana v. Mitchell BROOKS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 810
Pages: 1150–1150

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana v. Mitchell BROOKS.
No. 2001-KH-1842.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
March 8, 2002.

Opinion:
In re Brooks, Mitchell;- — Defendant; Applying for Supervisory and/or Remedial Writs, Parish of Orleans, Criminal District Court Div. F, No. 401-101; to the Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit, No. 2000-KA-0193.
Denied. However, because the court of appeal's direct review of relator's eonviction and sentence did not address the merits of his claim that counsel rendered ineffective assistance at trial, and deferred consideration of the claim to post-conviction proceedings, relator may reurge the claim in an application for post conviction relief properly filed in the district court. La.C.Cr.P. art. 926(A); cf. La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.4(A) and (C) (permitting district court to default claims fully litigated on appeal or inexcusably omitted from the appeal).