Legal Opinion
LeBleu v. Mitchell
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided April 19, 1989No. 88-4PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
STOKER, Judge.
This is an action for legal malpractice. Defendant was plaintiff’s court-appointed attorney to represent plaintiff in criminal proceedings brought by the State of Louisiana in April 1985. Plaintiff pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the charges against him and the district court ordered that a Sanity Commission examine him. In the meantime, and while he was incarcerated in the Evangeline Parish jail, plaintiff committed an act of self-mutilation and was hospitalized. In May 1985, following a hearing on plaintiff’s present capacity to proceed, the court ordered that…
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