BOYER v. LOUISIANA

No. 11-9953.

133 S.Ct. 1702 (2013)

185 L.Ed.2d 774

JONATHAN EDWARD BOYER, Petitioner v. LOUISIANA.

Supreme Court of United States.

April 29, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Bourke , for Petitioner.

Carla S. Sigler , Lake Charles, LA, for Respondent.

Richard Bourke , Counsel of Record, Ada Phleger , Emily Washington , New Orleans, LA, for Petitioner.

Thomas R. McCarthy , William S. Consovoy , Bryan K. Weir , Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, DC, John F. Derosier , District Attorney, Cynthia S. Killingsworth. First Assistant District Attorney, Carla S. Sigler , Counsel of Record, Assistant District Attorney, Karen C. McLellan , Assistant District Attorney, Lake Charles, LA, for Respondent.


PER CURIAM.

The writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted.

It is so ordered.

Justice ALITO, with whom Justice SCALIA and Justice THOMAS join, concurring.

We granted certiorari in this case to decide "[w]hether a state's failure to fund counsel for an indigent defendant for five years, particularly where failure was the direct result of the prosecution's choice to seek the death penalty, should be weighed against the state...

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