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Date Created: 2023-08-23 16:07:28.106735+00
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STATE OF LOUISIANA

        COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

SHAWN    DAVID         STEEP                                                          NO.     2023 CW          0727

VERSUS

LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT                    OF                                            AUGUST        23,       2023
PUBLIC      SAFETY AND
CORRECTIONS

In Re:             Shawn         David       Stepp,           applying      for       supervisory              writs,
                   18th Judicial              District         Court,       Parish      of    Iberville,            No.
                   82140.

BEFORE:           THERIOT,         PENZATO,         AND       GREENE,      JJ.

        WRIT       DENIED.        Habeas          corpus       proceedings            shall    be       instituted
in    the    parish         in    which       the    person          is    in    custody.      See       La.       Code
Crim.       P.    art.      352.        However,          if       re lator      is   making        a    complaint
with    regard         to   personal          injuries             allegedly      caused       by       the    state,
La.    R.S.       15:1171(B)        grants          authority to the              Department             of    Public
Safety and Corrections                       to    adopt       administrative           remedy procedures
to    receive,         hear,      and dispose             of       such complaints.            Any       complaint
pertaining to personal                       injuries          caused by the           state must             be made
under       the     Corrections              Administrative                Remedy       Procedure             Act     as
provided          in     La.      R.S.        15:1171-79.             See       Robinson       v.        Parole &
Probation          Division,         Department               of     Public      Safety &       Corrections,
2000-1574 (         La.      App.       1st       Cir.    9/28/01),         819       So.2d    1031.          In    the
event       of    an   adverse          ruling,          an    offender         may   within        thirty         days
after       receipt         of     the       decision,              seek    judicial          review          of    the
decision          only      in    the    Nineteenth                Judicial      District      Court          in    the
manner prescribed in La.                      R.S.       15:1177.

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COURT    OF APPEAL,              FIRST CIRCUIT

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