Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 22 - CORRECTIONS, CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
Part XV - Public Defender Board
Chapter 9 - Capital Defense Guidelines
Section XV-907 - Case tracking of Capital Cases
Universal Citation: LA Admin Code XV-907
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. Obligation of District Public Defender to Track All Capital Cases within Jurisdiction
1. Each district public defender
should track the arrest, indictment, procedural posture and disposition in all
capital cases in his or her district up to and including sentencing stage.
Tracking should include the cases of those defendants who are not currently
indigent. Information gathered from the tracking of capital cases is to be
promptly provided to the state public defender.
2. The district public defender's obligations
under this Section remain even where the district has assigned responsibility
for capital representation to the state public defender.
B. Obligation of State Public Defender to Track Capital Cases Post-sentencing
1. The
state public defender should track the appeal, state post-conviction, federal
post-conviction and clemency proceedings of every capital case in the
jurisdiction.
C. Obligation of State Public Defender to Maintain Statewide Caseload Data
1. The state public defender should maintain
and make available to the Board data describing the statewide capital caseload
at each stage of a capital case.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 15:148.
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