State of Louisiana v. Willie James Robertson

_|jln this cold-case prosecution initiated over 12 years after the victim died, the state charged defendant by grand jury indictment with second degree murder in violation of La.R.S. 14:30.1. After trial by jury, defendant was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 40 years’ imprisonment at hard labor. On appeal, the Third Circuit reversed defendant’s conviction and sentence after finding that the evidence presented at trial did not support a verdict for either the charged offense or for its responsive verdict of , manslaughter, an apparent compromise, and entered a judgment of…