State In re Colwart

SCHOTT, Judge.

We granted certiorari in order to consider the validity of a judgment of the magistrate judge of the Criminal District Court holding relator, an attorney, and his client, the defendant, in contempt of court for failing to comply with an en banc order of the court.

Relator is an attorney with the Orleans Indigent Defender Program. Terence Green was arrested at 3:05 a.m. on February 12, 1988 for possession of a marijuana with intent to distribute, a violation of R.S. 40:966. Later in the morning he was brought before the magistrate court for a hearing to set bail. When the…