No. 18-9442

Donald Loston v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-05-28
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 6th-amendment counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-efficiency judicial-integrity reversible-error right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-trial-court trial-court-discretion
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Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a state trial court denial of counsel of choice is reversible error when no threat against the interest of judicial integrity and efficiency was present?

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED . . 1. Whether a state trial court denial of counsel of choice is reversible error when no ; threat against the interest of judicial integrity and efficiency was present? 2. Whether a state trial court’s denial of counsel of choice and request for : continuance, and presents defendant with the choice of going to trial with court-appointed counsel who defendant has, with legitimate reason, completely lost trust in, create a type of : actual conflict, with high potential to constructively deny defendant the effect assistance of , counsel? PARTIES The petitioner is Donald Loston, a prisoner in the Louisiana Department of Public Safety ' and Corrections, presently housed at Raymond Laborde Correctional Center, located in Cottonport, Louisiana. . "The respondents are Camille A. Morvant, II, District Attorney Lafourche Parish, and Joseph S. Soignet, Assistant District Attorney, Bar Roll #21890, P.O. Box 431, 103 Maronge St, Suite A, Thibodeaux, La. 70301 ii

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-07-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-07-09
Waiver of right of respondent Darrel Vannoy to respond filed.
2019-04-24
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 27, 2019)

Attorneys

Darrel Vannoy
Joseph Sidney SoignetLafourche Parish District Attorney's Office, Respondent
Joseph Sidney SoignetLafourche Parish District Attorney's Office, Respondent
Donald Loston
Donald Loston — Petitioner
Donald Loston — Petitioner