Cooks v. Rapides Parish Indigent Defender Board

liPETERS, Judge.

The issue in this claim for damages is whether an indigent defender board and its chief administrative officer owed a duty to a material witness in a criminal matter, who had been arrested and incarcerated under La.R.S. 15:257, to appoint counsel for the witness.

DISCUSSION OF THE RECORD

Damion Cooks filed this suit against the Rapides Parish Indigent Defender Board (IDB) and Kenneth Rodenbeck, an employee and chief administrative officer of the IDB, alleging that these two defendants were at fault and liable for damages caused by the deprivation of his right to counsel.1 Cooks’…