Case ID: so3d_146/html/0543-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HUGHES, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE ex rel. Samuel KELLY v. STATE of Louisiana.
    No. 2013-KH-2670.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    July 31, 2014.
   HUGHES, J.

As the writ report acknowledges, the state’s “key witness” committed perjury on the stand, and the state dismissed a rule to revoke his probation, while the witness testified the state made him no promises. The defendant was convicted of murder primarily on the testimony of this one witness with no physical evidence. I would grant the writ to order an evidentiary hearing.