STATE OF LOUISIANA Vs. ERICE LANEHEART
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STATE OF LOUISIANA * VERSUS * NO. 2018-K-1031 COURT OF APPEAL ERICE LANEHEART * FOURTH CIRCUIT * STATE OF LOUISIANA ******* APPLICATION FOR WRITS DIRECTED TO CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT ORLEANS PARISH NO. 503-735, SECTION “D” Honorable Paul A Bonin, Judge ****** Judge Edwin A. Lombard ****** ON APPLICATION FOR REHEARING (Court composed of Judge Edwin A. Lombard, Judge Regina BartholomewWoods, Judge Paula A. Brown) Leon Cannizzaro District Attorney Donna Andrieu Assistant District Attorney Office of the District Attorney 619 S. White Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70119 COUNSEL FOR STATE OF LOUISIANA Erice Laneheart #421361 Main Prison Walnut 4 Louisiana State Penitentiary Angola, Louisiana 70712 COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANT/PRO SE REHEARING GRANTED MAY 8, 2019 ON REHEARING On rehearing granted, we have reviewed the pro se relator’s supplemental brief, as well as the transcript of the evidentiary hearing held August 20, 2018, on the relator’s application for post-conviction relief. The relator’s trial counsel explained at the hearing in detail his fruitless efforts to locate the alleged (stillundiscovered) eyewitness who would provide exculpatory testimony. Based upon this testimony, we do not find that the district court erred in concluding that the relator had not demonstrated that he received constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel.1 Accordingly, the relator’s writ application is denied. 1 The court stated in its ruling, “I was well-satisfied that Mr. Regan did not have actual knowledge of the existence or identity of any person who would have given exonerating testimony.” 1
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