FOR IMMEDIATE NEWS RELEASE

NEWS RELEASE # 067

FROM: CLERK OF SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA

On the 2nd day of August, 1999 , the following action was taken by the Supreme Court of Louisiana in the case(s) listed below:

WRIT DENIED :

99-OB- 2203 JOHNNIE A. JONES, SR. v. LOUISIANA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION, thorough LOUISIANA ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD and its DEPUTY DISCIPLINARY COUNSEL ROBERT S. KENNEDY, JR., BRYAN D. FISHER, ATTORNEY, and LASHONDA NICOLE HAWKINS

LEMMON, J. - not on panel.

99-C - 2228 IN RE: TOBIE JUDE (BROWN) DANTZLER (Parish of Livingston)

LEMMON, J. - not on panel.

TRAYLOR, J. - would grant the writ.

On the 3rd day of August, 1999 , the following action was taken by the Supreme Court of Louisiana in the case(s) listed below:

STAY DENIED; WRIT DENIED :

99-KK- 2224 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. JO WILLIS AND KIM SHOEMAKER (Parish of Jefferson)

CALOGERO, C.J. - would grant the stay order. In some seventeen cases pending in this Court from Orleans Parish, there has been a declaration of unconstitutionality with regard to La. Rev. Stat. 14:89 A(1) and/or 14:89 A(2): 99-KA-2014, 99-KA-2015, 99-KA-2016, 99-KA-2017, 99-KA-2018, 99-KA-2019, 99-KA-2020, 99-KA-2082, 99-KA-2083, 99-KA-2088, 99-KA-2089, 99-KA-2090, 99-KA-2091, 99-KA-2092, 99-KA-2093, 99-KA-2094, and 99-KA-0606 I would await the outcome of those cases before permitting this prosecution to go forward.

JOHNSON, J. - not on panel.

On the 4th day of August, 1999 , the following action was taken by the Supreme Court of Louisiana in the case(s) listed below:

WRIT GRANTED WITH ORDER :

99-C - 2008 WILBERT A. DERBIGNY, JR. v. SHANNON D. DERBIGNY (Parish of Caddo)

LEMMON, J. - would deny the writ.

VICTORY, J. - not on panel.

TRAYLOR, J. - would deny the writ.

WRIT DENIED :

99-KK- 2292 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. JOSEPH M. SABATHE (Parish of Jefferson)

KIMBALL, J. - not on panel.

On the 5th day of August, 1999 , the following action was taken by the Supreme Court of Louisiana in the case(s) listed below:

WRIT DENIED :

99-C - 1739 PETROLEUM HELICOPTERS, INC. v. JOHN H. UNTEREKER (Parish of Lafayette)

CALOGERO, C.J. - would grant the writ.

MARCUS, J. - not on panel.

KIMBALL, J. - would grant the writ.

99-KK- 2176 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. ALEXANDER HUDON SMITH (Parish of Natchitoches)

JOHNSON, J. - not on panel.

99-KK- 2264 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. DANIEL JOSEPH BLANK (Parish of Ascension)

CALOGERO, C.J. - not on panel.

99-KK- 2386 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. SHERMOND ESTEEN, JR. (Parish of Jefferson)

JOHNSON, J. - would grant the writ. Statement is inadmissable hearsay under C.E. art. 801.

KNOLL, J. - not on panel.

On the 6th day of August, 1999 , the following action was taken by the Supreme Court of Louisiana in the case(s) listed below:

WRIT DENIED :

99-KK- 2187 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. FREDDIE HURBERT (Parish of Jefferson)

LEMMON, J. - not on panel.

99-CC- 2388 STEPHEN ARTHUR HANSEL v. SARAH HOLYFIELD HANSEL (Parish of Orleans)

CALOGERO, C.J. - would grant the stay.

LEMMON, J. - would grant the stay.

VICTORY, J. - not on panel.