Legal Opinion

State v. Robertson

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided April 6, 2018No. 2016–KP–1742Published

1Per curiam

Writ denied. In 1991, Allen Robertson, Jr. was charged by grand jury indictment with two counts of first degree murder, arising from the deaths of Morris and Kazuko Prestenback. After a trial in 1991, Robertson was found guilty as charged and sentenced to death on both counts. Following the first trial, this Court vacated the convictions and sentences, having found that the trial court erroneously denied a defense challenge for cause to a prospective juror. State v. Robertson , 92-2660 (La. 1/14/94), 630 So.2d 1278. After the second trial in 1995, an East Baton Rouge Parish jury found…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Atkins v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
  2. Hall v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 2014
  3. State v. BrownSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2005
  4. State v. RobertsonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1994
  5. State v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2002

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