State v. Guidry

SUMMERS, Justice.

Defendants Eulin Guidry, Donald Landry and Allen Bonvillion were charged by grand jury indictment with having violated, on November 28, 1977, “the provisions of La. R.S. 42:5 through 42:7.1 by holding and participating in a closed meeting contrary to the law. Commonly referred to as the Sunshine Law.” 1

On that date the three defendants, all members of the Terrebonne Parish Police Jury and of its Coastal Zone Management Committee, assembled with the Secretary and Public Works Director, who were officials of the police jury, and some members of the Houma-Terrebonne Regional…