Opinion
2022 KW 0758
08-29-2022
STATE OF LOUISIANA v. KEITH JOSEPH LAFRANCE
Keith Joseph LaFrance, applying for supervisory writs, 22nd Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Tammany, No. 557,635.
BEFORE: McDONALD, McCLENDON, AND HOLDRIDGE, JJ.
WRIT DENIED.
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Holdridge, J., concurs in the denial of the ineffective assistance of counsel claim and dissents in part and would stay the writ application. The decision whether to apply Ramos v. Louisiana, ___ U.S. ___, 140 S.Ct. 1390, 206 L.Ed.2d 583 (2020) retroactively and grant postconviction relief on state collateral review to defendants convicted by nonunanimous juries in all or certain circumstances remains with the Louisiana Supreme Court. A state court may give broader effect to new rules of criminal procedure than is required by the relevant opinion. See Danforth v. Minnesota, 552 U.S. 264, 128 S.Ct. 1029, 169 L.Ed.2d 859 (2008). I would hereby stay the writ application in part pending the Louisiana Supreme Court's decision in State v. Reddick, 2021-1893 (La. 2/15/22), 332 So.3d 1173, wherein the court has granted the writ application for consideration of whether Ramos applies retroactively on state collateral review.