STATE v. ELLIS

No. 90-KA-0542.

572 So.2d 748 (1990)

STATE of Louisiana v. Ronald S. ELLIS.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

December 20, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Pamela S. Moran, Asst. Dist. Atty., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

Sherry Watters, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

Before SCHOTT, C.J., and KLEES and CIACCIO, JJ.


SCHOTT, Chief Judge.

Defendant was convicted of attempted first degree murder of a police officer, R.S. 14:27, 14:30, and sentenced to fifty years, the maximum allowed by the statute.

On June 28, 1988, at about 8 p.m. Officer Gary Dewey of the New Orleans Police Department was inside a van parked in a school yard near the Fischer Housing Project. He was conducting a surveillance of vehicles suspected of drug activity. The van had tinted windows. As he was...

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