Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Cornelius BARTHELEMY
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2017-03-13
Citations: 216 So. 3d 809
Docket Number: NO. 2017-KK-0439
Parties: STATE of Louisiana v. Cornelius BARTHELEMY
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 216
Pages: 809–809

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana v. Cornelius BARTHELEMY
NO. 2017-KK-0439
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
March 13, 2017

Opinion:
Applying For Supervisory and/or Remedial Writs, Parish of Orleans, Criminal District Court Div. C, No. 523-097; to the Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit, No. 2017-K-0219;
1 iWrit granted. The district court's ruling sustaining the defendant's objection to the introduction of other crimes evidence is reversed. Because the two shootings were so closely connected in time and place-merely minutes apart and only a few blocks separating the locations, we find the prior shooting constitutes an integral part of the transaction of events that culminated in the attempted shooting of the police officer. See La. Code Evid. art. 404(B)(1); State v. Taylor, 01-1638, pp. 10-11 (La. 1/14/03), 838 So.2d 729, 741. Consequently, the district court abused its discretion in excluding evidence of the prior shooting. See State v. Mosby, 595 So.2d 1135 (La, 1992).