Legal Opinion
State v. Ortiz
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided January 29, 2013No. 2011-KP-2799PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM *.
hWe granted the state’s application to consider the judgment of the district court vacating respondent’s sentence of death. For the reasons that follow, we reverse the district court and reinstate respondent’s capital sentence.
Respondent was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death in 1995 for the killing of his wife, Tracie Williams, in what the state urged jurors to find was. a murder-for-hire scheme motivated by respondent’s desire to collect the nearly $1,000,000 in life insurance on the victim. This Court affirmed respondent’s conviction and sentence on direct…
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