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PREJEAN v. BLACKBURN

Civ. A. No. 81-0632.

570 F.Supp. 985 (1983)

Dalton PREJEAN v. Frank C. BLACKBURN, et al.

United States District Court, W.D. Louisiana, Monroe Division.

August 5, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Guilbeau, Lafayette, La., John Charles Boger, Deborah Fins, New York City, Anthony G. Amsterdam, Stanford University Law School, Stanford, Cal., for plaintiff.

J. Nathan Stansbury, Dist. Atty., Lafayette, La., for defendants.

OPINION

NAUMAN S. SCOTT, Chief Judge.

I. BACKGROUND

Dalton Prejean, a 17 year old black male, was convicted by a jury in the Fourth Judicial District Court, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, of first degree murder for the shooting death of Louisiana State Police Officer Donald Cleveland. At the sentencing phase of the trial, the jury found one statutory aggravating circumstance,1 and after considering

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