Legal Opinion
State v. Lawson
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided November 20, 2013No. 2013-KA-0812PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAUL A. BONIN, Judge.
| ]The district attorney appeals the trial judge’s ruling sustaining Steven Lawson’s motion to quash the bill of information because his trial on the charge of unlawful possession of diazepam had not commenced within two years of the filing of the bill of information. See La.C.Cr.P. art. 912 B(l). As there is no question that the trial was not timely commenced within the two-year prescriptive period, the district attorney bore the heavy burden of establishing that the prescriptive period was either interrupted or suspended.
The trial judge found Mr. Lawson was still…
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