BALLARD v. WAITZ

No. 2006 CA 0307.

951 So.2d 335 (2006)

Joseph BALLARD v. Joseph L. WAITZ, Jr., District Attorney, 32nd Judicial District Court.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 5, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathryn Richard, Houma, Counsel for Defendant/Appellee, Joseph L. Waitz, Jr.

Joseph Ballard, Angola, Plaintiff/Appellant, In Proper Person.

Before: CARTER, C.J., WHIPPLE and McDONALD, JJ.


WHIPPLE, J.

Plaintiff, Joseph Ballard, an inmate at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, challenges the trial court's denial of his motion to continue a hearing and subsequent grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant, District Attorney, Joseph L. Waitz, Jr.

On September 4, 2003, Ballard filed a "Petition for Complaint" contending therein that the district attorney illegally detained him for a period of seventy-three days by failing to...

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