Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-07-28 19:06:52.394762+00
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STATE        OF     LOUISIANA                                                                           NO.       2023    KW     0417

VERSUS

RUBIN        WADE                                                                                         JULY       28,        2023

In     Re:            State            of      Louisiana,            applying                 for      supervisory               writs,

                      19th           Judicial          District             Court,             Parish          of       East      Baton
                      Rouge,           No.      11- 81- 0270.

BEFORE:               HOLDRIDGE,                CHUTZ,       AND     PENZATO,             JJ.

         WRIT         GRANTED.                 The    new    rule         of       criminal          procedure            announced
in     Ramos        v.     Louisiana,                       U. S.              1    140       S. Ct.      1390,      206    L. Ed. 2d
583 (    2020),            which provides for unanimity in jury verdicts is not
retroactive                 in       Louisiana.               State            v.     Reddick,                2021- 01893 (         La.
10/ 21/ 22),              351    So. 3d         273,     283.         See          also    State         v.       Jackson,        2022-
00720 (            La.          5/ 16/ 23),            360          So. 3d           273 (          per        curiam).             The
defendant' s                convictions                became          final             in      1986.            See     La.      Code
Crim.         P.     art.        922 ( B) .           Accordingly,                  the       district            court'   s     order

overruling                  the             procedural              objection                   of           untimeliness               to
defendant' s                application                 for         postconviction                      relief,           filed         in
February             2021,           and       directing            the    district                 attorney         to    file         an

answer         on         the    merits          is    reversed.                   See     La.       Code         Crim.     P.     art.

930. 8( A)(         2).          Therefore,                 the       application                    for          postconviction

relief         is         hereby        dismissed.                  See    State          v.     Brumfield,               2009- 1084
 La.     9/ 2/ 09),             16     So. 3d     1161,       1162.

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         Holdridge,                  J.,       concurs.             This           action        does         not    prevent        the
defendant                 from       requesting             postconviction                     relief          and                      a
                                                                                                                         raising
constitutional                   challenge             to     his      conviction                   upon      a     showing       that
his     conviction               by        a    non - unanimous jury was due to racial animus
or     that        the      jurors             voting not guilty had a valid basis to find
that         the     defendant                 was     not     proven              guilty beyond   a                    reasonable

doubt        from the            evidence             presented.                   State v. Reddick,                    2021- 01893
 La.         10/ 21/ 22),              351       So. 3d       273. (           Genovese,               J.,                           in
                                                                                                                  dissenting
part;        Griffin,            J.,        dissenting)

COURT        OF APPEAL,                FIRST     CIRCUIT