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Tuesday, October 6, 2026
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Jury’s murder verdict ‘not rational’

BATON ROUGE, La. — A Louisiana appeals court reversed a jury’s conviction of a man for the murder of his girlfriend, who was found drowned in a Louisiana bayou after the couple had been drinking and arguing. The reversal also vacates his sentence of life imprisonment at hard labor. The court agrees that the evidence did not support his conviction, writing that it was “not rational” for any trier of fact to “find beyond a reasonable doubt the defendant committed second degree murder.”

Read the ruling here.

Categories / Appeals, Briefs, Criminal, Trials

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