Legal Opinion

State ex rel. Lay v. Cain

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided February 14, 1997No. 96 CA 1247PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

JaSHORTESS, Judge.

Richard B. Lay, acting pro se, filed an action in West Feliciana Parish, where he is incarcerated, styled “Application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus.” Lay named as defendants Burl Cain, the warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola; Richard Stabler, the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections (DPSC); Ronald Bonvillian, the chairman of the Louisiana Board of Parole, and Patrick Canulette, Sheriff of St. Tammany Parish. Before any of the defendants answered the suit or otherwise appeared, the trial court concluded it was not a court of…

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2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. State Ex Rel. Matthews v. HendersonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1974
  2. Revere v. ReedLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1996
  3. State Ex Rel. Bartie v. StateLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1986
  4. Fussell v. ReedLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1995
  5. State Ex Rel. James v. StateLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1993

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3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Sinclair v. KennedyLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1997
  2. State v. WilsonLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2016
  3. Lewis v. ParishLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2017
  4. State Of Louisiana in the interest of D.M.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 2023
  5. State Of Louisiana v. Leron K. ClarkLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2025

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