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STATE EX REL. TURNER v. MAGGIO

No. 84-KD-1283.

463 So.2d 1304 (1985)

STATE ex rel. Arthur TURNER v. Ross MAGGIO, Jr., Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied March 21, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Katherine Wheeler, Baton Rouge, for respondent.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ronald Martin, Dist. Atty., Ronald E. Corkern, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., for relator.

LEMMON, Justice.

This is the latest in a series of cases involving a postconviction application in which a prisoner, who had entered a guilty plea and been sentenced to life imprisonment prior to the repeal of La.R.S. 15:571.7, claims that his plea was not "intelligently" entered because subsequent statutory and departmental policy changes have had the effect of making parole for "lifers" more difficult to obtain.1 In this case relator...

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