Case Name: STATE ex rel. Albert SOUBLET v. STATE of Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1999-06-18
Citations: 745 So. 2d 611
Docket Number: No. 98-KH-1097
Parties: STATE ex rel. Albert SOUBLET v. STATE of Louisiana.
Judges: LEMMON, J., not on panel.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 745
Pages: 611–612

Head Matter:
STATE ex rel. Albert SOUBLET v. STATE of Louisiana.
No. 98-KH-1097.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
June 18, 1999.

Opinion:
IN RE: Soublet, Albert; — Plaintiff(s); Applying for Supervisory and/or Remedial Writ; Parish of Orleans Criminal District Court Div. "G" Number 268-481; to the Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit, Number 98KW-0036
Writ granted in part; otherwise denied; ease remanded to the district court. The district court is ordered to appoint counsel for relator for purposes of conducting an evidentiary hearing at which it will determine whether relator was wearing identifiable prison garb at trial, and if so, whether his attorneys failure timely to raise the issue at trial constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel under the standard set out in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984).
LEMMON, J., not on panel.