Legal Opinion
State v. Coleman
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided July 17, 2013No. 48,168-KAPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCaraway, J.
hKimethia Coleman was charged with second degree murder, a violation of La. R.S. 14:30.1, and a jury convicted her as charged. The trial court sentenced Coleman to the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment at hard labor without parole, probation or suspension of sentence. Coleman appeals her conviction raising four assignments of trial error. We affirm.
Facts
On January 17, 2010, just before 4:00 a.m., Coleman called Caddo Parish 911 from the apartment of her boyfriend, Brian Spinks, in Shreveport. Spinks was in the United States Air Force and had dated Coleman for over a year. Police…
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