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FROM: CLERK OF SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA

Complete Opinion handed down on the 1st day of November, 2002

BY WEIMER, J.:

2001-KA- 1650
STATE OF LOUISIANA v. COREY D. WILLIAMS(Parish of Caddo)

(First Degree Murder)

Having reviewed the guilt portion of this defendant's trial and

having found no reversible error, we affirm the defendant's

conviction. We pretermit review of the penalty phase of

defendant's trial and remand the case for a post-Atkins hearing

on the sole issue of whether the defendant is mentally retarded.

CONVICTION AFFIRMED. CASE REMANDED FOR EVIDENTIARY HEARING.

VICTORY, J., concurs in part and dissents in part with reasons.


11/1/02
SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
No. 01-KA-1650
STATE OF LOUISIANA
v.
COREY D. WILLIAMS
On Appeal from the First Judicial District Court, for the Parish of Caddo,
Honorable Eugene W. Bryson, Jr., Judge, Presiding
and
Honorable Scott J. Crichton, Judge, Presiding

WEIMER, Justice
In addition to issues customarily addressed in death penalty cases, this case1
represents the first time this court must address issues arising from Atkins v.
Virginia, ___ U.S. ___, 122 S.Ct. 2242, 153 L.Ed.2d 335 (2002), a decision of the
United States Supreme Court which prohibited the execution of mentally retarded
persons.2  For the reasons that follow, we affirm the defendant

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