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STATE v. TRAHAN

Nos. 62484, 62485.

367 So.2d 752 (1978)

STATE of Louisiana v. Michael TRAHAN. STATE of Louisiana v. Romela Grace TRAHAN.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Dissenting Opinion January 31, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth E. Badon, Lake Charles, for Michael Trahan. Oliver "Jackson" Schrumpf, Sumpter & Schrumpf, Sulphur, for Romela Grace Trahan.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara B. Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frank T. Salter, Dist. Atty., J. B. Jones, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.

TATE, Justice.

The dispositive issue of these consolidated appeals is whether the defendants were deprived of due process rights by the trial court's denial of their pre-sentencing request for disclosure of allegedly untrue prejudicial information in their pre-sentence investigation reports, in order to afford them an opportunity to contradict or explain it.

We hold that the trial court was in error in denying this request. Therefore, we vacate

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