State of Louisiana v. Rogers Lacaze

WEIMER, Justice.

This matter is currently before the court in light of the remand by the United States Supreme Court in LaCaze v. Louisiana , --- U.S. ----, 138 S.Ct. 60 , 199 L.Ed.2d 1 (2017), which vacated the decision in State v. LaCaze , 16-0234 (La. 12/16/16), 208 So.3d 856 , in which the defendant's writ application related to his petition for post-conviction relief was denied, and the defendant's conviction was upheld. On remand, this court was instructed to consider whether the trial judge's recusal should have been required because "objectively speaking, 'the probability of actual…