STATE v. WELLS

No. K 2888.

459 So.2d 648 (1984)

STATE of Louisiana v. Adrian WELLS.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

November 14, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara B. Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Anne Lacour Neeb, Asst. Dist. Atty., New Orleans, for plaintiff.

M. Craig Colwart, New Orleans, for defendant.

Before REDMANN, C.J., and GARRISON and KLEES, JJ.


REDMANN, Chief Judge.

We granted certiorari to review the trial court's dismissal of a prosecution reinstituted after nol pros. We now set the dismissal aside and remand to allow the state to produce evidence that the nol pros was the result of being unprepared for trial because of the defendant's counsel's having advised the state that his client would plead guilty and therefore trial would be unnecessary.

The state's application asserts that then defense...

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