Legal Opinion
State v. Kelly
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided January 11, 2010No. 10-KA-528PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARC E. JOHNSON, Judge.
|2Pefendant, Carl Kelly, was indicted by the St. James Parish Grand Jury on a charge of second degree murder in violation of La. R.S. 14:30.1. He proceeded to trial on September 11, 2007. After a two-day trial, a unanimous 12-person jury found defendant guilty as charged. The trial court subsequently sentenced defendant to life imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence.
In his sole assignment of error on appeal, defendant claims his trial counsel was ineffective in failing to object to the trial court’s improper jury…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Sullivan v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
- State v. OliveauxSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1975
- State v. SmithSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1992
- State v. TaylorLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2004
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3Cited by2 opinions
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