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STATE v. RIDEAU

No. 47130.

165 So.2d 282 (1964)

246 La. 451

STATE of Louisiana v. Wilbert RIDEAU.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied July 1, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frank T. Salter, Jr., Dist. Atty., Jack C. Watson, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellant.

James A. Leithead, Fred H. Sievert, Jr., Lake Charles, for appellee.

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

Wilbert Rideau's conviction and sentence to die for the murder of Julia Ferguson, affirmed by this court,1 having been reversed by the United States Supreme Court2 because the jury trying him had been drawn from a community exposed repeatedly and in depth through the medium of television to the "spectacle" of Rideau being interviewed in jail the day following the murder—while...

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