CALOGERO, Justice.
On December 14, 1971 an elderly diamond merchant was robbed at gunpoint of a quantity of diamonds in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Sometime thereafter defendant Thomas Earl Pearson was charged with armed robbery. Allegedly defendant Pearson hired one George Bursavich to commit the crime and thereafter received the proceeds of the robbery. Pearson was tried, convicted, and sentenced to serve twenty-five years at hard labor. He then appealed to this Court...
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