STATE OF LOUISIANA v. WILLIAM WAYNE LEE JR (2023)

Writ application granted - see briefing notice and Order.

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Supreme Court of Louisiana February 24, 2023

02/24/23

Supreme Court

STATE OF LOUISIANA

New Orleans

CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN L WEIMER Sixth District

JUSTICES

WILLIAM J CRAIN First District

SCOTT J CRICHTON Second District

JAMES T. GENOVESE Third District

JAY B MCCALLUM Fourth District

JEFFERSON D. HUGHES III Fifth District

PIPER O. GRIFFIN Seventh District

VERONICA O. KOCLANES CLERK OF COURT

400 Royal St. Suite 4200

NEW ORLEANS. LA 70130-8102

TELEPHONE (504) 310-2300

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February 24, 2023

2022-KK-01827

STATE OF LOUISIANA

VS.

WILLIAM WAYNE LEE. JR.

NOTE: FOR BRIEFING PURPOSES WRIT GRANTED February' 24, 2023

MEMORANDUM TO COUNSEL IN CAPTIONED CASE:

Please be advised that the above-captioned matter will be set for oral argument on this Court's next available docket. A copy of the official docket with the specific date and time of oral argument will be mailed out.

Please note Section 8 of _Rule VII of the Rules of _this Court provides that the applicant or relator, as the _case may be, must file their briefs on or before March 21, 2023; and the _respondent on or before April 10, 2023.

Oral argument will be waived it brief is untimely filed. Briefs submitted on legal sized paper should be fastened at the top. All briefs should be backed with the customary “Blueback” or other flexible material. In criminal proceedings, the court directs that counsel must file a brief. Failure to do so may subject counsel to a penalty of contempt of Court.

It is further provided in Rule VII, Section 9 that briefs sent through the mail shall be deemed timely tiled if mailed on or before the due date. If the brief is received by mail on the first legal day following the expiration of the delay, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that it was timely tiled. In all cases where the presumption does not apply, the timeliness of the mailing shall be shown only by an official United States postmark or by official receipt or certificate from the United States Postal Service, or bona fide commercial mail services such as Federal Express or United Parcel Service, made at the time of mailing which indicates the date thereof. Any other date stamp, such as a private commercial mail meter stamp, or label from an Automated Postal Center, shall not be used to establish timeliness.

Briefs forwarded by private delivery or courier service shall be deemed timely filed only if received by the clerk on or before the last day of the delay for filing.

With kindest regards. I remain,

Very truly yours,

Ryan Chan Deputy Clerk

RC: RC

ccs: All Counsel

Hon. John A. Keller

Hon. Melissa R. Henry

Hon. Rodd Naquin, Clerk

22nd Judicial District Court: 370993

Court of Appeal, First Circuit: 2022 KW 1060

SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA

No. 2022-KK-01827

STATE OF LOUISIANA

VERSUS

WILLIAM WAYNE LEE, JR.

On Supervisory and/or Remedial Writs

Twenty-Second Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Tammany, No. 370993; Court of Appeal, First Circuit, No. 2022 KW 1060.

And, whereas, the Court has this date, pursuant to Article 5, Section 5, of the Constitution of Louisiana, made and issued the following order, to wit— “It is ordered that the writ of review issue; that the District Court and the Court of Appeal send up the record in Duplicate of the case; and that counsel for all parties be notified.”

Now, therefore, the said District Court and the Court of Appeal is hereby commanded, in the name of the State of Louisiana and of this Honorable Court, to send up forthwith to this Court, in accordance with Supreme Court Rule 1, at the City of New Orleans, the record in duplicate of the above-entitled case.

Witness the Honorable Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana, on this 24th day of February, in the year of our Lord, Two Thousand Twenty-Three.

Veronica O. Koclanes Clerk of Court

Deputy Clerk of Court