Harlan v. Frazier

MEMORANDUM RULING

STAGG, Chief Judge.

In mid-June, 1983, James Edward Harlan, age 17, and three female high school classmates drove from Aurora, Colorado to Minden, Louisiana to attend a wedding. During the latter part of the evening of June 17, after all the wedding festivities were over, the four young people from Colorado went with Jim Megehee, who lived in nearby Dubberly, to find where other young people might be. “We made a loop through Minden and then we went and nobody was uptown so we went to Dixie Inn.” At a liquor store in Dixie Inn they bought some alcoholic refreshments and, around…