STATE EX REL. PORTER v. BLACKBURN

No. 85-KH-1465.

475 So.2d 768 (1985)

STATE ex rel. Ray Quinn PORTER v. Frank C. BLACKBURN, Warden Louisiana State Penitentiary.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

September 27, 1985.


Denied.

DIXON, C.J., would grant and order an evidentiary hearing to determine 1—the effectiveness of counsel in permitting an apparently insane defendant to plead guilty without even requiring the members of the Sanity Commission to testify and be cross-examined and 2—to determine in an adversary proceeding with other appointed counsel the competence of defendant intelligently to plead guilty to the charges. On the face of the pleadings before us, defendant...

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