State v. Dressner

Denied. In 2004, a Jefferson Parish jury found relator, Dustin Dressner, guilty as charged of the first degree murder of Paul Fasullo. At trial, Fasullo's wife, Shannon, testified that she answered a knock on her door around 10:30 p.m. on June 6, *5412002, to find Dressner (with whom she was familiar) and a black male asking to come inside to buy drugs. When Shannon declined and turned to close her door, one of the men struck her over the head with a glass wine bottle and both entered, armed with knives that Dressner had taken from a friend's apartment earlier in the day. The commotion woke…