STATE v. DONOVAN

No. 2019-KA-0722.

301 So.3d 541 (2020)

STATE of Louisiana v. Richard DONOVAN.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

May 27, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon Cannizzaro , District Attorney, Donna Andrieu , Assistant District Attorney, Irena Zajickova , Assistant District Attorney, Michael Ambrosia , Assistant District Attorney, ORLEANS PARISH, 619 S. White Street, New Orleans, LA 70119, COUNSEL FOR APPELLEE/STATE OF LOUISIANA.

Mary Constance Hanes , LOUISIANA APPELLATE PROJECT, P. O. Box 4015, New Orleans, LA 70178-4015, COUNSEL FOR APPELLANT/DEFENDANT.

(Court composed of Judge Edwin A. Lombard, Judge Sandra Cabrina Jenkins, Judge Regina Bartholomew-Woods).


At the conclusion of his jury trial, on the charge of second degree murder, the defendant, Richard Donovan, was convicted of the responsive offense of manslaughter, by a non-unanimous jury verdict of ten to two. In this direct appeal of his conviction, the defendant raises four assignments of error, the first of which...

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