Legal Opinion

State v. Rochon

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided October 25, 2011No. 2011-KA-0009PublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtKimball, C.J.

|! This matter is before us pursuant to this Court’s appellate jurisdiction over cases in which a law or ordinance has been declared unconstitutional by the trial court. La. Const, art. V, § 5(D). The district court declared Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure article 496 unconstitutional under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, as well as Article I, Section 5 of the Louisiana Constitution. For the reasons that follow, we find article 496 must be read in pari materia with La.C.Cr.P. article 202, such that a warrant may not issue on a bill of information…

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2Cases cited60 opinions

  1. Warth v. SeldinSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  2. Payton v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  3. Abbott Laboratories v. GardnerSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  4. Roe v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  5. Gerstein v. PughSupreme Court of the United States · 1975

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3Cited by16 opinions

  1. State v. BazileSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2013
  2. Shepherd v. SchedlerSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2016
  3. Louisiana Federation of Teachers v. StateSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2012
  4. State v. ThomasLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2014
  5. State v. GregoryLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2014

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