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STATE v. COX

No. 2008-K-0492.

5 So.3d 869 (2009)

STATE of Louisiana v. Walter R. COX, Sr.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied March 6, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. Caldwell, Attorney General, John F. DeRosier, District Attorney, David Daniel Palay, Jr., Carla Sue Sigler, Assistant District Attorneys, for applicant.

Louisiana Appellate Project, Mark Owen Foster, for respondent.

WEIMER, Justice.1

The State's writ application was granted to determine the correct interpretation of LSA-R.S. 14:96 which defines the crime of aggravated obstruction of a highway of commerce as "the intentional or criminally negligent placing of anything, or performance of any act, on any ... highway ... wherein it is foreseeable that human life might be endangered."

For reasons that follow, we reverse the ruling of the court...

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