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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. Fred BROWN.
    No. 2000-KK-3442.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Dec. 18, 2000.
   In re State of Louisiana; — Plaintiff; Applying for Supervisory and/or Remedial Writs, Parish of Jefferson, 24th Judicial District Court Div. L, No. 99-6949; to the Court of Appeal, Fifth Circuit, No. 00 K 1913.

The application is granted. The ruling of the district court is reversed, and evidence of the victims’s dangerous character may not be introduced until there has been evidence of a hostile demonstration or an overt act on the part of the victim at the time of the offense charged. La.Code Evid. Art. 404A(2)(a).

CALOGERO, C.J., recused; JOHNSON, J., would deny the writ.