Can a Supreme Court order or action become case law?
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Below I have attached a Louisiana Supreme Court action ordering a
disctrict court to review a defendants record and vacate an order to
revoke his probation if the record shows he completed probation on a
specified date. So does that action become case law in similar cases?
SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
No. 07-KH-1710
STATE OF LOUISIANA
v.
THOMAS E. HOLT
On Writ of Certiorari to the
Third Circuit Court of Appeal
PER CURIAM:
Writ granted in part; otherwise denied; case remanded to the district
court.
The district court is ordered to appoint counsel for relator for
purposes of
conducting an evidentiary hearing at which it will determine the terms
of relator's
1998 aggravated battery sentence. If the transcript correlates with
the sentencing
minutes, and it appears that relator's probationary term following
conviction and
sentence for that offense expired on September 14, 2003, nearly two
years before
the court then revoked probation and made his suspended sentence
executory, after
his arrest and conviction for distribution of cocaine, the court shall
vacate its
previous order revoking probation and rendering the underlying
sentence executory
and shall modify his current term of incarceration accordingly. See
La.C.Cr.P. art.
898 ("Upon completion of the period of suspension of sentence or
probation . . .
the defendant shall have satisfied the sentence imposed.").

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