STATE v. LAWRENCE

No. 2009-KA-1637.

47 So.3d 1003 (2010)

STATE of Louisiana v. Larry LAWRENCE.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

August 25, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon A. Cannizzaro, Jr. , District Attorney, Brad Scott , Assistant District Attorney, New Orleans, LA, for State of Louisiana.

John Harvey Craft , Louisiana Appellate Project, New Orleans, LA, for Defendant/Appellant.

(Court composed of Judge MAX N. TOBIAS, JR., Judge DAVID S. GORBATY, Judge PAUL A. BONIN).


PAUL A. BONIN, Judge.

A less-than-unanimous jury convicted Larry Lawrence of the second degree murder of Lionel Freeman, Jr., a one-year-old child. The jury, over Mr. Lawrence's objection, considered evidence of the facts underlying his earlier conviction for cruelty to a juvenile, which in that case was his seven-month-old daughter. The district judge denied Mr. Lawrence's motions for new trial and for reconsideration of sentencing, and sentenced Mr. Lawrence to...

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