Case Name: STATE ex rel. Dobie Gillis WILLIAMS v. Robert Hilton BUTLER, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1988-03-17
Citations: 520 So. 2d 759
Docket Number: No. 88-KD-0628
Parties: STATE ex rel. Dobie Gillis WILLIAMS v. Robert Hilton BUTLER, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, Louisiana.
Judges: MARCUS, WATSON and COLE, JJ., dissent from the order.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 520
Pages: 759–759

Head Matter:
STATE ex rel. Dobie Gillis WILLIAMS v. Robert Hilton BUTLER, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, Louisiana.
No. 88-KD-0628.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
March 17, 1988.

Opinion:
In re Williams, Dobie Gillis; applying for supervisory writs, and writ of habeas corpus; Parish of Grant, 35th Judicial District Court, No. 33481.
Granted. The execution is stayed. The application is remanded to the district court to conduct an evidentiary hearing on (1) ineffective assistance of counsel in the penalty phase and (2) admissibility of the confession, and to rule on these claims.
MARCUS, WATSON and COLE, JJ., dissent from the order.