Legal Opinion
Washington v. Reed
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided February 23, 1996No. 95 CA 1067PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
I2FOGG, Judge.
By this appeal, a prisoner challenges the denial of his application for a writ of mandamus to compel the District Attorney and the Clerk of Court for the Parish of St. Tammany to produce certain public records. We affirm.
In January of 1994, Melvin Washington, an inmate at the Louisiana State Prison at Angola, filed public records requests with the St. Tammany Parish District Attorney’s office and Clerk of Court’s office. From the District Attorney’s office, he sought the ease file concerning his 1971 conviction. From the Clerk of Court’s office, he sought copies of both the…
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