Case Name: STATE ex rel. Mitchell BROOKS Jr. v. STATE of Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2002-03-08
Citations: 810 So. 2d 1157
Docket Number: No. 2001-KH-1425
Parties: STATE ex rel. Mitchell BROOKS Jr. v. STATE of Louisiana.
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 810
Pages: 1157–1158

Head Matter:
STATE ex rel. Mitchell BROOKS Jr. v. STATE of Louisiana.
No. 2001-KH-1425.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
March 8, 2002.

Opinion:
In re Brooks, Mitchell Jr.,; — Plaintiff; 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 conviction 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-convic tion 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).