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FOR IMMEDIATE NEWS RELEASE NEWS RELEASE # 9 FROM: CLERK OF SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA

The Opinions handed down on the 22nd day of February, 2006 , are as follows: PER CURIAM : 2004-OB-1079 IN RE: KOBY DEAN BOYETT COMMITTEE ON BAR ADMISSIONS Retired Judge Moon Landrieu, assigned as Justice ad hoc, sitting for Associate Justice Catherine D. Kimball; Retired Judge Philip C. Ciaccio, assigned as Justice ad hoc, sitting for Associate Justice Jeannette Theriot Knoll, recused Accordingly, it is ordered that the application for admission be and hereby is granted. CALOGERO, C.J., dissents. VICTORY, J., dissents and assigns reasons. WEIMER, J., dissents and assigns reasons.

02/22/2006 SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA NO. 04-OB-1079 IN RE: KOBY DEAN BOYETT

ON APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION TO THE BAR

PER CURIAM*
The Committee on Bar Admissions ("Committee") opposed the application of petitioner, Koby Dean Boyett, to sit for the Louisiana Bar Examination based on character and fitness concerns relating to his 1989 federal felony conviction of aiding and abetting the manufacture of methamphetamine. We subsequently granted petitioner permission to sit for the bar exam, with the condition that upon his successful completion of the exam, he apply to the court for the appointment of a commissioner to take character and fitness evidence.1 Petitioner thereafter successfully passed the essay portion of the bar exam, and upon his application, we appointed a commissioner to take evidence and report to this court whether petitioner possesses the appropriate character and fitness to be admitted to the bar and allowed to practice law in the State of Louisiana. We also authorized the Office of Disciplinary Counsel to conduct an investigation into petitioner's qualifications to be admitted to the bar. The commissioner conducted a character and fitness hearing in November 2004, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule XVII,

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