Legal Opinion

State v. Watson

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided February 27, 1984No. 81-KA-2227PublishedCited by 160 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

449 So.2d 1321 (1984)

STATE of Louisiana

v.

Willie WATSON, Jr.

No. 81-KA-2227.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

February 27, 1984.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Morel, Jr., Dist. Atty., Abbott J. Reeves, Kurt F. Sins, Gregory Champagne, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.

Victor E. Bradley, Jr., Norco, John L. Diasselliss, III, LePlece, for defendant-appellant.

WATSON, Justice.[*]

This is Willie Watson, Jr.'s second appeal from a death sentence for the slaying of Kathy Newman. After the first appeal, his first degree murder conviction was affirmed,…

2Cases cited35 opinions

  1. Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. State v. NarcisseSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1983
  3. State v. LindseySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1981
  4. State v. EdwardsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1981
  5. State v. MartinSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1978

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3Cited by160 opinions

  1. State v. JenkinsOhio Supreme Court · 1984
  2. State v. WilleSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1990
  3. State v. BrogdonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1984
  4. State v. RobertsonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1994
  5. State v. MartinSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1994

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