State of Louisiana Versus Jerilyn Magee & Eric Rogers

STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 25-K-72

VERSUS FIFTH CIRCUIT

JERILYN MAGEE & ERIC ROGERS COURT OF APPEAL

STATE OF LOUISIANA

February 18, 2025

Morgan Naquin
Deputy Clerk

IN RE JERILYN MAGEE AND ERIC ROGERS

APPLYING FOR SUPERVISORY WRIT FROM THE TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT,
PARISH OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, DIRECTED TO THE HONORABLE
STEPHEN D. ENRIGHT, JR., DIVISION "N", NUMBER 24-4704, 24-4705

Panel composed of Judges Marc E. Johnson,
Stephen J. Windhorst, and John J. Molaison, Jr.

WRIT DENIED

Relators/defendants, Jerilyn Magee and Eric Rogers, seek review of the trial

court’s order setting this matter for trial on February 21, 2025.

A trial court has the “duty to require that criminal proceedings . . . be

conducted with dignity and in an orderly and expeditious manner and to so control

the proceedings that justice is done.” La. C.Cr.P art. 17; State v. Reimonenq, 19-

367 (La. 10/22/19), 286 So.3d 412, 417. This authority includes the authority to set

a case for trial. Reimonenq, 286 So.3d at 417. Here, counsel for relators concedes

she initially agreed to the date but then she subsequently objected on the record

because the State indicated it would file a written motion to continue. On the

showing made, we do not find the trial court abused its discretion in setting the trial

on February 21, 2025.1

1 As for the State’s written motion to continue the February 21, 2025 trial, there is no indication that the
motion was set or ruled on by the trial court. Thus, there is nothing for this court to review at this time.

Accordingly, this writ application is denied.

Gretna, Louisiana, this 18th day of February, 2025.

SJW
MEJ
JJM

SUSAN M. CHEHARDY CURTIS B. PURSELL

CHIEF JUDGE CLERK OF COURT

SUSAN S. BUCHHOLZ
FREDERICKA H. WICKER
CHIEF DEPUTY CLERK
JUDE G. GRAVOIS
MARC E. JOHNSON
STEPHEN J. WINDHORST LINDA M. WISEMAN
JOHN J. MOLAISON, JR.
FIRST DEPUTY CLERK
SCOTT U. SCHLEGEL
TIMOTHY S. MARCEL FIFTH CIRCUIT
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25-K-72
E-NOTIFIED
24th Judicial District Court (Clerk)
Honorable Stephen D. Enright, Jr. (DISTRICT JUDGE)
Thomas J. Butler (Respondent) Rachel I. Conner (Relator)
Darren A. Allemand (Respondent)

MAILED
Grace N. Bronson (Relator) Honorable Paul D. Connick, Jr.
Attorney at Law (Respondent)
3015 Magazine Street Molly Love (Respondent)
New Orleans, LA 70115 Assistant District Attorney
Twenty-Fourth Judicial District
200 Derbigny Street
Gretna, LA 70053