STATE v. THOMAS

KA 17-620.

258 So.3d 17 (2017)

STATE of Louisiana v. Frederick THOMAS.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

December 6, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip Terrell, Jr. , Ninth Judicial District Court District Attorney, P.O. Box 1472, Alexandria, La 71309, (318) 473-6650, COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFF/APPELLEE: State of Louisiana.

Annette Fuller Roach , Louisiana Appellate Project, P. O. Box 1747, Lake Charles, LA 70602-1747, (337) 436-2900, COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANT/APPELLANT: Frederick Thomas.

Court composed of Ulysses Gene Thibodeaux, Chief Judge, Billy Howard Ezell, and John E. Conery, Judges.


Defendant Frederick Thomas, then seventeen years old, pled guilty to second degree murder in 1974 and received a sentence of life imprisonment without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence for the first twenty years. A subsequent change in the law ended his parole eligibility.

In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled...

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