STATE v. DAVID

No. 82-KA-0150.

468 So.2d 1133 (1985)

STATE of Louisiana v. Elliot Joseph DAVID.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied May 23, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Morel, Jr., Dist. Atty., Don Almerico, Harry Morgan, Abbott Reeves, and Greg Champagne, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.

Randell O. Lewis, Luling, Manina Dubroca, St. Rose, for defendant-appellant.


CALOGERO, Justice.*

By an opinion rendered on November 26, 1984, defendant's death sentence, which had been imposed for the second time by a trial jury, was set aside upon our finding unconstitutional La.Code Crim.Pro.Ann. art. 905.4(c), which prescribes as an aggravating circumstance supporting the death penalty that "the offender ... has a significant prior history of criminal activity." In that opinion we were uncertain about, and did...

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