Legal Opinion
Deloch v. Whitley
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided November 22, 1996No. 96-KP-1901PublishedCited by 137 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
684 So.2d 349 (1996)
Sidney DELOCH
v.
John P. WHITLEY, Warden.
No. 96-KP-1901.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
November 22, 1996.
2Per curiam
The state seeks review of the judgment in the district court granting the petitioner's application for post-conviction relief and setting aside his 1979 conviction and sentence for aggravated rape in violation of La.R.S. 14:42. The district court ruled that systematic exclusion of African-American grand jurors from the position of grand jury foreperson in Iberville Parish had deprived petitioner of equal protection and required quashing the indictment returned against him on…
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