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STATE EX REL. ROSS v. BLACKBURN

No. 81-KH-0411.

403 So.2d 719 (1981)

STATE ex rel. William ROSS v. Frank C. BLACKBURN, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

September 8, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Frank Holthaus, Baton Rouge, for defendant-relator.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Paul Carmouche, Dist. Atty., Dale G. Cox, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-respondent.

LABORDE, Justice ad hoc.*

Defendant William Ross was convicted of second degree murder in Caddo Parish in February of 1974 and sentenced to life imprisonment without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence for 20 years. Following an appeal to this Court wherein the only argument urged was the unconstitutionality of the second degree murder statute, defendant's conviction and sentence were affirmed. State v. Ross,...

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