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STATE v. RIVES

No. 81-KA-0054.

407 So.2d 1195 (1981)

STATE of Louisiana v. John A. RIVES.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

December 14, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., John M. Mamoulides, Dist. Atty., G. Michael Grosz, Abbott J. Reeves, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.

Ralph Barnett, Gretna, for defendant-appellant.

LEMMON, Justice.*

This is an appeal from convictions of forcible rape and aggravated crime against nature. On appeal defendant principally challenges (1) the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the convictions and (2) the exclusion of expert testimony on the effects of phencyclidine and of evidence of defendant's lack of violent propensities.1

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