Legal Opinion
Edgar Labat and Clifton Alton Poret v. Robert B. Bennett, Acting Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 30, 1966No. 22218PublishedCited by 142 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge:
“The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.” 1
“Death” for thirteen years has kept close tab on Edgar Labat and Clifton Poret. March 23, 1953, an all-white jury in the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans, Louisiana, found La-bat and Poret, the two Negro petitioners in this habeas corpus proceeding, guilty of the aggravated rape of a white woman. The jury brought in no recommendation of mercy; the defendants were sentenced to death by electrocution. Since then they have been in solitary confinement on Death Row in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Nine…
2Cases cited63 opinions
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3Cited by142 opinions
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