Legal Opinion
State v. Hart
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided August 18, 2004No. 2004-KA-0121PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
JjMICHAEL E. KIRBY, Judge.
STATEMENT OF CASE
On January 31, 2002, Burnell Hart was indicted for the second degree murder of Coshia Turner.1 At his arraignment on February 8 he pled not guilty. Trial began on January 21, 2003, and on January 23 a twelve-person jury found him guilty as charged. On July 18 Hart filed a motion for post verdict judgment of acquittal, and on October 2 he filed a motion for new trial. The court denied these motions. Hart then waived further delays, and the court sentenced him to life imprisonment without benefits of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.
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