Court Opinion

ID: 7785253
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-30 21:20:44.0607+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:28:16.639614
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VICTORY, TRAYLOR & WEIMER, JJ.,
concur in the writ denial and assign reasons: The trial court’s policy of denying a defendant’s right to a preliminary examination because of the absence of the defendant is erroneous. See La.C.Cr.P. arts. 831 and 834 which do not require the defendant’s presence at a preliminary examination. Based on these provisions and the constitutionally (La. Const, art. I, § 14) and statutorily (La.C.Cr.P. art. 292) recognized right to a preliminary examination, the trial court cannot initiate a policy which deprives an absent defendant of a preliminary examination when the defen*664dant’s presence is not required and can be waived. However, in this matter, the minutes do not reflect a contemporaneous objection and no writ was taken from the trial court’s initial denial of the preliminary examination. Consequently, the writ should be denied on the showing made.