Legal Opinion
State v. Heard
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided April 6, 2016No. 15-873PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, J.
|)The State of Louisiana appeals the trial court’s grant of a motion to quash the grand jury indictment filed against Robert Lee Heard, Jr., in which the trial court found that La.R.S. 14:30(A)(11) is unconstitutionally vague as applied to the defendant. For the following reasons, we reverse the trial court’s judgment and remand the matter to the trial court for further proceedings.
DISCUSSION OF THE RECORD
On November 20, 2012, the St. Landry Parish Grand Jury returned a true bill of indictment against Robert Lee Heard, Jr. (hereinafter referred to as “the defendant”), charging him with first…
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