Writ denied.
CALOGERO, Chief Justice, dissents from the denial of the writ application and assigns reasons.
I would grant the writ application to consider whether the defendant at the first trial "had an opportunity and similar motive to develop the testimony by direct, cross, or redirect examination," testimony that the State seeks to introduce at the forthcoming trial under La.Code Evid. art. 804(B)(1) because the State's eyewitness, Norman Jackson, is now...
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