IN RE PARKER

No. 60746.

357 So.2d 508 (1978)

In re Allen PARKER.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

April 10, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. James Kellogg, Howell & Kellogg, New Orleans, for relator Allen Parker.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Donald Giglio, Norman J. Robinson, Asst. Dist. Attys., New Orleans, for respondent State.


SUMMERS, Justice.

Allen Parker was called as a witness in the trial of his brother Gerald Parker on September 27, 1977. During the course of the trial Allen asserted the constitutional privilege against self-incrimination guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the Federal Constitution and Section 16 of Article I of the Louisiana Constitution. The trial judge held that his claim was not well-founded, and when he refused to answer a question propounded by the State's...

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