Legal Opinion
State v. Lewis
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided December 29, 2016No. 2016-KA-0224PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Rosemary Ledet
| T This is a criminal appeal. The defendant, Billy Lewis, appeals his two con*205victions for second degree murder, in violation of La. R.S. 14:30.1,. and two life sentences. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
On October 10, 2002, the defendant, Mr. Lewis, and a co-defendant, Ronald Anderson, were charged by grand jury indictment with two counts of first degree murder, in violation of La. R.S. 14:3o.1 The charges stemmed from the July 24, 2002 shooting deaths of sixteen-year-old Travis Webb (“Travis”) and his eleven-year-old niece, Daveion Jones…
2Cases cited30 opinions
- Barker v. WingoSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- North Carolina v. AlfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- State v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1995
- State v. LoveSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2003
- State v. BertrandSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2009
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3Cited by7 opinions
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- State of Louisiana v. Davian BessardLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2020
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