140 So. 3d 1237 - State v. Merrill’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on City of New Orleans v. ASSESSORS'RETIREMENT AND RELIEF FUND · Durio v. Horace Mann Insurance Co. · 921 So. 2d 882 - In Re Elloie · 68 So. 3d 499 - Fulmer v. State, Department of Wildlife & Fisheries · 874 So. 2d 365 - State v. Oliver
Most-quoted passages
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“(A) Disqualification. The following persons shall not be permitted to qualify as a candidate for elective public office or hold elective public office or appointment of honor, trust, or profit in this state: (1) A person actually under an order of imprisonment for conviction of a felony. (2) A person who has been convicted within this state of a felony and who has exhausted all legal remedies, or who has been convicted under the laws of any other state or of the United States or of any foreign government or country of a crime which, if committed in this state, would be a felony and who has exhausted all legal remedies and has not afterwards been pardoned either by the governor of this state or by the officer of the state, nation, government, or country having such authority to pardon in the place where the person was convicted and sentenced. (B) Exception. The provisions of Paragraph (A) of this Section shall not prohibit a person convicted of a felony from qualifying as a candidate for elective public office or holding such elective public office or appointment of honor, trust, or profit if more than five years have elapsed since the completion of his original sentence for the conviction. (C) The provisions of Paragraph (A) of this Section shall not prohibit a person from being employed by the state or a political subdivision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kavanagh v. Hebron“Questions of law involving the correct interpretation of legislation are reviewed de novo, without deference to the legal conclusions of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kavanagh v. Hebron“Right to Vote; Disqualification from Seeking or Holding an Elective Office,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kavanagh v. Hebron
How this case has been treated — in progress
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