892 So. 2d 28 - State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “Inin State v. Laugand, 99-1124 (La.3/17/00), 759 So.2d 34 , the Louisiana Supreme Court in a per curiam opinion, reversed the defendant’s conviction because the trial judge erroneously denied a motion to continue on the basis that counsel was unprepared. The court noted that counsel participated in the trial, including cross-examining the State’s witnesses and arguing the case to the jurors at the close of evidence. However, the court found that the trial court committed reversible error in its denial of the motion to continue because the record showed that defendant’s counsel had not prepared and the trial court had to intervene to stop defendant’s counsel from pursuing matters directly adverse to the defendant’s interests. The court further found that defendant’s counsel had failed to complete other tasks essential to the defendant’s case. In State v. Addison, 94-2745 (La.6/23/95), 657 So.2d 974 , the defendant had been represented by various attorneys from the public defender’s office, and on the morning of trial, the attorney who had represented the defendant only at a bail reduction hearing appeared and moved for a continuance. The trial court denied the continuance and noted that different public defenders had been substituting in and out of the case. The court of appeal refused to consider the denial of the continuance on the grounds that the attorney failed to state specific grounds for the continuance. The Supreme Court granted cer-tiorari to consider the issue of wh”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 94 So. 3d 847 - State ex rel. J.T.