Legal Opinion
State v. Jago
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided November 17, 2017No. 2017-K-0183PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL, PARISH OF ST. CHARLES
2Per curiam
11Writ denied. The court of appeal, erred in finding that defendant must have injected a lethal quantity of heroin before he can be shielded from prosecution by operation of La.R.S. 14:403.10(B), Requiring a drug user to have experienced a life-threatening overdose—and requiring a lay person: before seeking help to -determine whether a drug user has experienced a life-threatening overdose—would frustrate the purpose of the statute, which is to encourage persons to seek help for those they reasonably believe 'have…
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