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STATE v. AMEDEE

No. 81-KA-1357.

408 So.2d 1259 (1982)

STATE of Louisiana v. Keith C. AMEDEE.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

January 25, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Leon Cannizzaro, Kendall Green, Louise Korns, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.

Dwight Doskey of Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

MARVIN, Justice Ad Hoc.*

The legal issue in this appeal of a 2d degree murder conviction is whether the State's evidence of the results of a drug scan made on the victim was admissible to rebut defendant's testimony that the killing accidentally occurred when he struggled with the homicide victim who was acting like he was "on something" (drugs or whatever) and threatened defendant with a gun...

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