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To: LindyBill who wrote (97230)1/27/2005 5:56:26 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 793917
 
The convictions were reversed because the courts found that potentially exculpatory evidence was withheld from the jury. The prosecution blundered. That's the reason the case went on "forever." The Louisiana Supreme Court and the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit are not pushovers. Louisiana has a high execution rate.

The law has degrees of homicide because we believe in relative degrees of culpability. Capital murder requires malice aforethought. In Rideau's case, he convinced them that he did not plan on killing the person, but panicked.

Having not attended the trial, I don't know what it was that persuaded the jury that he did not plan to kill the victim. Rideau has stated that, had he intended to kill them in the first place, he would have executed them at the bank.
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