740 So. 2d 1291
Docket No. 98-K-2902.
STATE of Louisiana v. Victoria W. GRAY, Gary S. Watkins and Amy Gray.
Decided May 7, 1999.
Supreme Court of Louisiana · decided 1999-05-07
Key passage — most relied on by later courts
“. . . the district court's judgment became final when the state failed to take a timely appeal from the disputed ruling.”
quoted by 2 later decisions, including 966 So. 2d 98 - State v. Chambers, 261 So. 3d 801 - State v. Vogel
Relies on 337 So. 2d 1163 - State v. Veazey
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1999-05-07
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2018
23 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
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¶1Granted. The decision of the court of appeal is vacated and the judgment of the district court granting the defendant's motion to quash is reinstated. The district court's judgment became final when the state failed to take a timely appeal from the disputed ruling. State v. Veazey,337 So.2d 1163 (La.1976).
¶2MARCUS, J. not on panel.
¶3TRAYLOR, J. would deny the writ.