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745 So. 2d 611

State ex rel. Soublet v. State

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided June 18, 1999

Supreme Court of Louisiana · decided 1999-06-18

Relies on Strickland v. Washington

Decided 1999-06-18

¶1IN RE: Soublet, Albert; — Plaintiff(s); Applying for Supervisory and/or Remedial *612Writ; Parish of Orleans Criminal District Court Div. “G” Number 268-481; to the Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit, Number 98KW-0036

¶2Writ granted in part; otherwise denied; ease remanded to the district court. The district court is ordered to appoint counsel for relator for purposes of conducting an evidentiary hearing at which it will determine whether relator was wearing identifiable prison garb at trial, and if so, whether his attorneys failure timely to raise the issue at trial constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel under the standard set out in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984).

LEMMON, J., not on panel.
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