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State v. Trung Le

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided April 11, 2018No. 2017–KA–0164PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

The Investigation

Lieutenant Nicholas Gernon7 (hereinafter "Lt. Gernon") and Detective Bruce Brueggeman (hereinafter "Det. Brueggeman") handled the investigation. Neither gun was recovered but ballistics tests of the casings collected after the shooting indicated that one gun was a nine-millimeter and the other was a forty-caliber Smith and Wesson. The location where the four nine-millimeter casings were recovered established that the defendant shot a nine-millimeter gun. Ms. Thomas was killed by a bullet fired from the forty-caliber gun.

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2Cases cited96 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  3. Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  4. Strickler v. GreeneSupreme Court of the United States · 1999
  5. Darden v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1986

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3Cited by9 opinions

  1. State v. JenkinsLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2019
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  3. State of Louisiana v. Anthony N. Green Sr.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 2025
  4. State of Louisiana v. Louis BarnesLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2021
  5. State v. DegregoryLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2019

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