STATE v. SAIZAN

No. 96-KA-1340.

692 So.2d 1045 (1997)

STATE of Louisiana v. Robert J. SAIZAN.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

April 8, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon Dupree Jackson, Baton Rouge, for applicant.

Richard Phillip Ieyoub, Attorney General, Douglas P. Moreau, District Attorney, Veronica Rhenae Jones, Carl James Jackson, Baton Rouge, for respondent.


KNOLL, Justice.1

This is a direct appeal from a judgment of the district court which ruled that the portion of § 11.01 of the Plan of Government of the City-Parish of Baton Rouge (City/Parish), depriving the parish attorney authority to nolle prosequi, was unconstitutional as a usurpation of the State's police power and violative of La. Const. Art. VI, § 9(B).2 We reverse the district court...

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