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STATE        OF   LOUISIANA                                                                NO.    2023    KW    0686

VERSUS

GARY        DEANDRE       HANSOMS                                                         AUGUST         4,    2023

In    Re:          Gary        Deandre     Hansome,                             for
                                                           applying                  supervisory writs,
                   22nd        Judicial         District       Court,           Parish of  St.  Tammany,
                   No.      4286- F- 2022.

BEFORE:            McCLENDON,          HESTER,        AND MILLER,           JJ.

         WRIT          GRANTED.         The      trial         court'   s     ruling    limiting  the
priority           list        to      only      those        cases        handled   by   the   public
defender' s            office is        reversed.        The priority list                       should indicate
the      order         in      which      the     cases               to        be
                                                              are                         called        for    trial,
including          both        cases      in     which     a     defendant                is     represented          by
appointed          counsel,         and    cases       in which a defendant is represented
by    private           counsel. "          Since       adequate        notice             is     a     fundamental
element           of     due     process . . .                  the        criminal              docket        for     a

particular day must                    indicate the order in which cases                                 are    to    be
called       for       trial."         State     v.    Simpson,       551        So. 2d         1303,    1305 (      La.
1989);       see       also     State     v.     Tanner,       2021- 00698 (              La.     5/ 23/ 21),        316
So. 3d      826.        Accordingly,            this    matter        is        remanded          to     the    trial

court for further proceedings consistent with this ruling.
                                                        PMC
                                                        SMN

         Hester,         J.,    dissents.

OURT     OF APPEAL,            FIRST      CIRCUIT

       DEPUTY CLERK OF COURT
                  FOR    THE    COURT