Legal Opinion
State v. Small
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided August 27, 2014No. 2013-KA-1334PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAUL A. BONIN, Judge.
11 Ricky Small appeals his convictions for the attempted first degree murders of Ti-jai Andrews and Lyndon Henry. Claiming that the prosecution failed to exclude every reasonable possibility that he was misidentified as one of the perpetrators, Mr. Small first seeks a Jackson v. Virginia review for the sufficiency of the evidence on that limited issue. Next, should his argument for acquittal on appeal fail, Mr. Small contends that inflammatory remarks made by the prosecutor during rebuttal closing argument entitle him to a new trial either because his trial attorney…
2Cases cited47 opinions
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- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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- Powell v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
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