Edgar Labat and Clifton Alton Poret v. Robert B. Bennett, Acting Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1966-09-30

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GEWIN, Circuit Judge (dissenting): This case, involving one of the most heinous crimes ever committed in the rich and varied history of New Orleans, Louisiana, has been lost in the “nice, sharp quillets of the law.” 1 I respectfully dissent, and in doing so challenge the interpretation of the facts, the reasoning and the legal conclusions applied to the facts in the majority opinion. I…

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