Court Opinion

ID: 9844165
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 02:58:27.046258+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:15:29.169734
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*549HAWTHORNE, Justice
(dissenting).
The causes for recusation of a district attorney are set forth in Article 310 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, and it has been said by this court that a district attorney cannot recuse himself or be recused except for the causes provided by law. See State v. Boasberg, 124 La. 289, 50 So. 162. The allegations of defendant’s motion to recuse the district attorney in the instant case do not fall within any of the causes of recusation enumerated in Article 310, and consequently I think the trial judge was correct in overruling the motion to recuse. Furthermore, I do not subscribe to the holding of this court in State v. Tate, 185 La. 1006, 171 So. 108.
I therefore respectfully dissent.