Sentence for horrific murder vacated

Sentence for horrific murder vacated

NEW ORLEANS - An appeals court in Louisiana affirmed the murder conviction of a man whose minor children testified that their father fatally shot a neighbor during an argument, then asked them to shoot him so he would not face consequences. When they refused, he asked his daughter and son to stab the victim; the son did so before later putting the knife in the victim's hand. Because the man was not represented by counsel at his resentencing hearing, his sentence of life imprisonment is vacated.