Legal Opinion
State v. Celestine
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided November 28, 1983No. 83-KA-0916PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
443 So.2d 1091 (1983)
STATE of Louisiana
v.
Willie Lawrence CELESTINE.
No. 83-KA-0916.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
November 28, 1983.
Rehearing Denied February 2, 1984.
William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., J. Nathan Stansbury, Dist. Atty., Michael Harson, Asst. Dist. Atty., Robin Rhodes, Don Landry, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.
David Clarke, Lafayette, for defendant-appellant.
DIXON, Chief Justice.
On September 23, 1981 a Lafayette Parish grand jury indicted defendant Willie Lawrence Celestine for the first degree murder of Marcelianne Richard, eighty-one…
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