Legal Opinion
State v. Williams
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided February 27, 2019No. 52,519-KAPublished
1Opinion of the CourtGarrett, J.
The defendant, Amanda Williams, was convicted by a unanimous jury of the second degree murder of Bryan Savage. Williams was ordered to serve the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence. On appeal, she claims the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction. For the following reasons, we affirm the conviction and sentence.
FACTS
The victim in this murder case was Bryan Savage. Williams had previously been employed by Elite Services as a sitter and sat with Savage's elderly father at Savage's home on Woolworth…
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