La. Admin. Code tit. 22 § XV-907

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section XV-907 - Case tracking of Capital Cases

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.

La. Admin. Code tit. 22, § XV-907

Promulgated by the Office of the Governor, Public Defender Board, LR 36:995 (May 2010).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 15:148.