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STATE v. ORTIZ

No. 2011-KP-2799.

110 So.3d 1029 (2013)

STATE of Louisiana v. Manuel ORTIZ.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied March 15, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. Caldwell , Attorney General, Jefferson Parish District Attorney's Office, Paul D. Connick, Jr. , District Attorney, Terry Michael Boudreaux , Assistant District Attorney, for applicant.

Center for Equal Justice, Nicholas Joseph Trenticosta , Martin E Regan & Associates PLC, Martin Edward Regan, Jr. , Nisha Sandhu, for respondent.

PER CURIAM*.

We granted the state's application to consider the judgment of the district court vacating respondent's sentence of death. For the reasons that follow, we reverse the district court and reinstate respondent's capital sentence.

Respondent was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death in 1995 for the killing of his wife, Tracie Williams, in what the state urged jurors to find was a murder-for-hire scheme...

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