Legal Opinion
State v. Franklin
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided October 9, 2013No. 2013-KA-0488PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAUL A. BONIN, Judge.
hThe district attorney appeals the trial judge’s granting of the motion to quash filed by the defendant, Joshua Franklin. The district attorney charged Mr. Franklin with jumping bail, a violation of La. R.S. 14:110.1 A, which criminalizes the “intentional failure to appear at a date, time, and place as ordered by the court in which the defendant’s case is pending.” The ground specified in Mr. Franklin’s motion to quash was that his failure to appear was unintentional as he was hospitalized in a trauma intensive care unit on his court date.1
Upon our de novo review of the…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- State v. OrdodiSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2006
- State v. ReavesSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1979
- State v. LegrandSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2004
- State v. PerezSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1985
- State v. ByrdSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1998
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3Cited by16 opinions
- State v. FranklinLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2014
- State v. OliviaLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2014
- State v. MarcelinLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2013
- State v. TrepagnierLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2014
- State v. BrownLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2015
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