Legal Opinion
Burge v. State
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided June 11, 2010No. 2010 CA 0051PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCarter, C.J.
| pGerald Burge appeals the district court’s dismissal of his petition against the State of Louisiana for failure to timely request service. For the following reasons, we affirm.
FACTS
On July 27, 2007, Gerald Burge filed a petition in the Nineteenth Judicial District Court against the State of Louisiana pursuant to LSA-R.S. 15:572.8, which allows an applicant to seek compensation for wrongful conviction and imprisonment.1 *236Burge alleged that he had been wrongfully convicted of second degree murder in the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1986. After…
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3Cited by4 opinions
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