Legal Opinion
State v. Salinas
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided September 25, 1998No. 97-K-2930PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
719 So.2d 1035 (1998)
STATE of Louisiana
v.
Guadalupe SALINAS.
No. 97-K-2930.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
September 25, 1998.
Richard P. Ieyoub, Attorney General, Robert "Rick" Bryant, District Attorney, Robert C. McCorquodale, Lake Charles, Michael Stratton, for applicant.
Phyllis E. Mann, Alexandria, for respondent.
PER CURIAM.[*]
We granted the state's application for review because it appeared that the court of appeal misapplied this Court's jurisprudential rule that a trial court may not use its assessment of the defendant's credibility as the sole basis for imposing an apparently severe sentence.…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- United States v. GraysonSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- State v. QuebedeauxSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1982
- State v. SocoSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1983
- United States v. Juan A. Delgado, Juan A. Delgado v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1991
- State v. SmithSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1981
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3Cited by7 opinions
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