State ex rel. Dyer v. State

71 So. 3d 270, 2011 La. LEXIS 2271, 2011 WL 4644913

• Court: Supreme Court of Louisiana
• Decided: September 30, 2011
• Docket: No. 2011-KH-1648
• Status: Published

Opinion

In re Dyer, Ivory; — Plaintiff; Applying For Supervisory and/or Remedial Writs, Parish of E. Baton Rouge, 19th Judicial District Court Div. H, No. 05-10-0382; to the Court of Appeal, First Circuit, No. 2011 KW 0869.

Granted for the sole purpose of remanding the case to the district court and ordering it to rule on the merits of relator’s pro se motion for bond reduction. See State v. Melon, 95-2209 (La.9/22/95), 660 So.2d 466, 467 (“[L]ower courts must ... accept and consider [pro se] filings from represented defendants in a pre-verdict context whenever doing so will not lead to confusion at trial”).

VICTORY, KNOLL and CLARK, JJ., would deny.