Legal Opinion
Hoffpauir v. State, Department of Public Safety & Corrections
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided June 23, 2000No. 99 CA 1089PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
11 CARAWAY, Judge Pro Tempore.
Plaintiffs appeal from a judgment which sustained the exceptions of peremption and prescription and failure to join an indispensable party and dismissed their lawsuit. For the following reasons, we affirm.
Facts
By this lawsuit, Tracey Hoffpauir and Vicki Hoffpauir, the daughter and wife of a murder victim, and Victims and Citizens Against Crime (collectively, the “Plaintiffs”) have challenged the process by which Paul Chandler was granted clemency and paroled from the custody of the Department of Corrections. On July 19, 1975, Chandler killed two persons in…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Kennedy v. PowellLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1981
- Bryant v. Louisiana State Pardon BoardLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1979
- Twin Parish Port Com'n v. Berry Bros., Inc.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1995
- State v. CortinaLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1993
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3Cited by7 opinions
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- Donald Ford v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety & CorrectionsLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2021
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