State v. Scott

PER CURIAM;

| jWrit granted; reversed and remanded. Defendant was indicted for the second degree murder of Noah Stout committed on August 28, 2012, and obstruction of justice committed by tampering with evidence of the murder. After defendant was arrested on September 4, 2012, he admitted he stabbed the victim but claimed he acted in self-defense.

As a trial date approached, defendant, filed a motion in limine to exclude any evidence indicating he attacked or threatened his former girlfriend, Kimberly Med-lin, or her friend, Philip Oliver; any evidence pertaining to a Jefferson Parish Sheriffs…