Legal Opinion
State v. Thomas
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided August 18, 1999No. 32,215-KAPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
| NORRIS, Chief Judge.
Michael Thomas was charged by bill of information with attempted second degree murder. He proceeded to trial in which a 12-member jury returned the responsive verdict of attempted manslaughter, La. R.S. 14:27, 14:31. He was later adjudicated a third felony offender and sentenced to a mandatory life at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence. He now appeals, urging the evidence was insufficient to support a conviction of attempted manslaughter, the trial court impermissibly limited cross examination of a State witness, and the sentence is…
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