Legal Opinion
State v. Gregory
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided March 5, 2014No. 2013-K-1593PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAUL A. BONIN, Judge.
| iRochelle Gregory, the defendant, applied to us seeking the exercise of our supervisory jurisdiction to review the trial judge’s denial of her motion to quash the bill of information.1 The ground specified in Ms. Gregory’s motion to quash was that the prescriptive period which requires the district attorney to commence her trial within “two years from the date of institution of the prosecution” had expired and trial had not commenced. La.C.Cr.P. art. 578 A(2).
We have reviewed the complained-of ruling under an abuse-of-discretion standard, but having found that the trial…
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- State v. LoveSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2003
- State v. RomeSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1994
- State v. WellsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2010
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