STATE v. PRUITT

No. KA-2918.

482 So.2d 820 (1986)

STATE of Louisiana v. James PRUITT.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 26, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Porterfield, Dirks & Porterfield, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellant James Pruitt.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Maria Lazarte Reuther, Asst. Dist. Atty., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee State of La.

Before BYRNES, WARD and HUFFT, JJ.


WARD, Judge.

James N. Pruitt was convicted of a felony, crime against nature, for soliciting fellatio from a female undercover police agent. The conviction was reversed by this Court because the Trial Judge denied Pruitt the opportunity to present expert testimony on the issue of whether heterosexual oral sex is unnatural. State v. Pruitt, 449 So.2d 154 (La.App. 4th Cir. 1984)....

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