Case Name: STATE ex rel. Robert Wayne SAWYER v. John P. WHITLEY, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1992-07-31
Citations: 602 So. 2d 9
Docket Number: No. 92-KD-2166
Parties: STATE ex rel. Robert Wayne SAWYER v. John P. WHITLEY, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary.
Judges: MARCUS, COLE and HALL, JJ., dissent from this order and would grant motion to vacate stay.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 602
Pages: 9–9

Head Matter:
STATE ex rel. Robert Wayne SAWYER v. John P. WHITLEY, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary.
No. 92-KD-2166.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
July 31, 1992.
Motion to Vacate Stay Order Denied Aug. 6, 1992.

Opinion:
In re Sawyer, Robert Wayne; — Plaintiffs); applying for supervisory and/or remedial writs; Parish of Jefferson, Twenty-Fourth Judicial District Court, Div. "G", No. 79-2841.
Stay granted. Two cases are on this Court's September docket which present issues arising out of State v. Cage, 554 So.2d 39 (La.1989), and Cage v. Louisiana, 498 U.S. 39, 111 S.Ct. 328, 112 L.Ed.2d 339 (1990) (per curiam). State ex rel. Guillot v. Whitley, 595 So.2d 642 (La.1992), and State ex rel. Taylor v. Whitley, 595 So.2d 642 (La.1992). For that reason, the scheduling of an execution date in this case is stayed until further orders of this Court.
MARCUS, COLE and HALL, JJ., dissent from this order and would grant motion to vacate stay.