State v. Allen

| ]This matter was returned to us by the Louisiana Supreme Court to be heard by a five-judge panel, the Court specifically holding, citing La. Const, art. V, § 8(B), that a matter involving a bail bond is civil in nature and can be decided by a trial court having only criminal jurisdiction. State v. Allen, 11-2843 (La.4/13/12), 84 So.3d 1288.1

I adhere to our majority opinion originally rendered by this court in this case, State v. Allen, 11-0693 (La.App. 4 Cir. 11/23/11), 78 So.3d 841.

If the case at bar is a civil case, then the majority ignores the definition of a “fortuitous event” as…