State v. Samuels

I, CANNIZZARO, J.

This case is before us on an application for a writ or certiorari. The relator, the State of Louisiana, is seeking a review of a ruling of the magistrate court judge. The *1183ruling dismissed an extradition warrant on the grounds that the warrant was defective, because the governor’s signature was affixed to the warrant by a signature machine and was not personally signed by hand by the governor. We grant the writ application.

FACTS

Ronald Samuels, the relator in this case, is being held in the Orleans Parish Prison in New Orleans, Louisiana after his arrest on a fugitive warrant.…