State of Louisiana Versus Brandon L. Pike

STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 25-KH-384

VERSUS FIFTH CIRCUIT

BRANDON L. PIKE COURT OF APPEAL

STATE OF LOUISIANA

August 26, 2025

Linda Tran
First Deputy Clerk

IN RE BRANDON L. PIKE

APPLYING FOR SUPERVISORY WRIT FROM THE TWENTY-FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT,
PARISH OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, DIRECTED TO THE HONORABLE DONALD A.
ROWAN, JR., DIVISION "L", NUMBER 17-661

Panel composed of Judges Susan M. Chehardy,
Fredericka Homberg Wicker, and Jude G. Gravois

WRIT DENIED

Relator, Brandon L. Pike, applied to this Court seeking mandamus relief in

light of the district court’s alleged failure to rule on his “Motion for Out-of-Time

Appeal.” Finding that Mr. Pike’s request for mandamus relief is moot, we deny

the writ application.

On May 2, 2024, following a multiple bill hearing, Mr. Pike was adjudicated

a second felony offender and was given an enhanced sentence of sixty years

imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of

sentence for aggravated burglary, and ordered that this sentence be served

consecutively with Mr. Pike’s eight-year sentence for second degree battery

imposed on March 16, 2018.

In the instant application seeking mandamus relief, Mr. Pike contends that

on October 20, 2024, he mailed a Motion for Out-of-Time Appeal to the district

court, but that to date, the district court has failed to rule on his motion. However,

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the record reflects that on November 13, 2024, the district court granted Mr. Pike’s

Motion for Out-of-Time Appeal and that, on January 27, 2025, the Louisiana

Appellate Project informed the district court that Michael Idoyaga was assigned as

appellate counsel for Mr. Pike. The record further reflects that an appeal was

lodged in this Court on behalf of Mr. Pike on February 4, 2025, under case number

25-KA-47, State of Louisiana versus Brandon L. Pike; an appellate brief

challenging the excessiveness of the sixty-year sentence was filed on April 2,

2025, by Mr. Idoyaga, appointed counsel for Mr. Pike; and, the matter is currently

set on this Court’s docket for October 8, 2025.

Accordingly, the relief Mr. Pike requests is denied as moot.

Gretna, Louisiana, this 26th day of August, 2025.

SMC
FHW
JGG

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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. TRAN
JOHN J. MOLAISON, JR.
FIRST DEPUTY CLERK
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TIMOTHY S. MARCEL FIFTH CIRCUIT
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24th Judicial District Court (Clerk)
Honorable Donald A. Rowan, Jr. (DISTRICT JUDGE)
Thomas J. Butler (Respondent)

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Brandon L. Pike #370521 (Relator)
Dixon Correctional Institute
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Jackson, LA 70748