Legal Opinion
Colarte v. LeBlanc
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided February 1, 1999No. CIV. A. 98-3079PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER AND REASONS
PORTEOUS, District Judge.
Before the Court is a petition by Walfri-do Colarte for issuance of a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Having considered the petition, the record, and the applicable law, the Court hereby DENIES the Petitioner’s request for ha-beas corpus relief.
I. Background
The Petitioner, Walfrido Colarte, currently is serving a forty-year sentence at the Dixon Correctional Institute in Jackson, Louisiana. On May 17, 1995, in the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court for the Parish of St. Tammany, a twelve-member jury unanimously found Colarte…
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