STATE IN RE COLWART

No. 88-K-0299.

523 So.2d 1 (1988)

STATE of Louisiana In re M. Craig COLWART and Terence Green.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

March 10, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., New Orleans, for respondent.

M. Craig Colwart, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, pro se., and for Green.

Before SCHOTT, WARti and ARMSTRONG, JJ.


SCHOTT, Judge.

We granted certiorari in order to consider the validity of a judgment of the magistrate judge of the Criminal District Court holding relator, an attorney, and his client, the defendant, in contempt of court for failing to comply with an en banc order of the court.

Relator is an attorney with the Orleans Indigent Defender Program. Terence Green was arrested at 3:05 a.m. on February 12, 1988 for possession of a marijuana with intent to distribute...

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