PER CURIAM.
We have granted defendant's application for supervisory writs to review a single question raised below: whether the state may seek the death penalty on retrial of a capital offense in a case where defendant has received a life sentence in the first prosecution and successfully attacked that conviction on appeal. We hold consistent with the accused's constitutional right of appeal in Louisiana, La.Const.1974, Article I, § 16, that the state may not...
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