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STATE v. BATES

No. 85 KA 1998.

495 So.2d 1262 (1986)

STATE of Louisiana v. Milburn Wayne BATES.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied October 9, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., J. Morgan Goudeau, III, Dist. Atty., David Miller, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.

Julie Cullen LeBlanc, for defendant-appellant.

COLE, Justice.

Milburn Wayne Bates was convicted of the first degree murder of Shannon Beau Clark, a hitch-hiker Bates picked up near Vidor, Texas and shot to death on a back road outside Krotz Springs, Louisiana on December 4, 1984.

The 12-member jury which found Bates guilty of the first degree murder of Clark also unanimously recommended Bates receive the death penalty. The jury found two aggravating circumstances in Clark's death. It found the defendant...

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