State v. Ste. Marie

hPER CURIAM:

In this prosecution on four counts of indecent behavior with juveniles, La. R.S. 14:81, respondent moved to quash the bills of information because the state had failed to comply with the special time limits provided by La. R.S. 15:171 for trial of child sex abuse cases. On the day of trial, respondent also moved for a continuance after the state acknowledged that it had lost the only copy of a videotaped interview conducted with the four victims by the Iberia Parish Sheriffs Office. The state had fortuitously preserved an audiotape of that interview and made it available to the…