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Date Created: 2023-03-13 22:04:48.317487+00
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STATE OF LOUISIANA

        COURT OF APPEAL, Fl~ST CIRCUIT

RODNEY    HAMILTON                                                                NO.        2022 CW     1325

VERSUS

M.    SERGEANT       TEDRICK KNOX;
AND    STATE    OF LOUISIANA
THROUGH      LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT
OF    PUBLIC       SAFETY AND
                                                                                   MARCH        13,      2023
CORRECTIONS          LOUISIANA STATE
PENITENTIARY

In Re:          Rodney          Hamilton,        applying          for        supervisory       writs,        20th
                   Judicial       District        Court,          Parish       of West       Feliciana,         No.
                   24183.

BEFORE:         THERIOT,         CHUTZ,       AND     HESTER,          JJ1.
                                                                          I

        WRIT       NOT    CONSIDERED.                This    writ         l::lPPlication      is    untimely.
Relator's          notice       of   intent      was    filed          on     November    14,      2022,      more
than     thirty          days    after        the      district           court    signed       a     judgment
granting       the       defendants'          exception           of    nonjoinder,          and    notice       of
judgment       was       mailed          on   October        6,    202'2.         Although         plaintiffs
filed    a     motion       for      a    new    trial       following          the     district         court's
grant     of       the    exception,            that    ruling           was    interlocutory,             and    a
motion       for    new     trial         pertains      only       to , final         judgments       and       was
procedurally             improper.            Most     significamtly,              the        filing       of     a
motion       for    new    trial         seeking      reconsider~tion of                an    interlocutory
ruling       cannot        interrupt            the    thirty-day              period     for       filing       an
application          for    supervisory writs                establ~shed by Rule                   4-3   of     the
Uniform Rules             of Louisiana Courts                of Appeal.           See Carter v.            Rhea,
2001-0234 ( La.           App.       4th Cir.        4/25/01),          785 So.2d 1022,            1025.

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COURT    OF APPEAL,          FIRST CIRCUIT

       DEPUTY CLERK OF COURT
             FOR THE        COURT