State v. Williams

LeBLANC, Judge.

Defendant, Mark A. Williams, was indicted by the East Baton Rouge Parish Grand Jury for second degree murder, in violation of La.R.S. 14:30.1. He initially pleaded not guilty to the charged offense and filed several pre-trial motions, including a motion to suppress a taped confession. The motion to suppress was heard on August 10, and denied on August 11,1987. When the matter came up for trial on August 25, 1987, defendant expressed a desire to withdraw his former plea of not guilty and enter a plea of guilty to the legislatively responsive offense of manslaughter, conditioned…