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LEWIS v. STATE EX REL. DPS

No. CA 91 0799.

602 So.2d 68 (1992)

Ernest LEWIS v. STATE of Louisiana, Through the DEPARTMENT of PUBLIC SAFETY and CORRECTIONS.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Writ Denied October 2, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael R. Connelly, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellant Ernest Lewis.

April Snellgrove, Joseph Erwin Kopsa, Asst. Atty. Gen., Division of Risk Litigation, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellee State of La. through Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections.

Before SHORTESS, LANIER and CRAIN, JJ.

LANIER, Judge.

This action is a civil suit for damages alleging breach of a plea bargain in a criminal case. The trial court held a plea bargain in a criminal case is not a conventional obligation for purposes of the civil law and dismissed the suit. This devolutive appeal followed.

FACTS

The district attorney for the Nineteenth Judicial District Court for the Parish of East Baton Rouge (19th JDC) charged in a bill of information that...

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