Court Opinion

ID: 9895262
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-11-06 17:06:36.300185+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:11:51.988118
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STATE       OF   LOUISIANA                                                     NO.     2023       KW    0955

VERSUS

TANDEM       COLE   LEBLANC                                                 NOVEMBER             6,     2023

In    Re:         Tandem       Cole     Leblanc,       applying        for    supervisory               writs,

                  23rd     Judicial      District       Court,       Parish     of    Ascension,              No.

                  45244.

BEFORE:           THERIOTf       PENZATO,       AND    GREENE,       JJ.

        WRIT      GRANTED.             The    district        court        abused     its        discretion

                  the      surveillance          video        in    question.          See            State    v.
excluding
Rice,        2017- 0446 (        La.     6/ 29/ 17),         222     So. 3d    32 (        per        curiam).

                        the                  finding        probable       cause      is    vacated           and
Accordingly,                    ruling
this case is remanded for a reopened preliminary examination for
the     defense' s         presentation          of     the        surveillance        video.               This

                                                       to      the                                     of     the
court        makes        no     finding        as                     admissibility
surveillance            video    at    trial.

                                                      ARP

                                                      HG

        Theriot,         J.,    dissents and would deny the writ application.

COURT       OF   APPEAL,       FIRST    CIRCUIT

     IE'     PUTY   CLERK       OF    COURT
                  FOR    THE    COURT