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FOR IMMEDIATE NEWS RELEASE NEWS RELEASE # 3 FROM: CLERK OF SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA The Opinions handed down on the 19th day of January, 2005 , are as follows:

BY TRAYLOR, J. :

2001-KA-2730

STATE OF LOUISIANA v. CLARENCE HARRIS (Parish of Orleans) (First Degree Murder) For the reasons assigned herein, the defendant's conviction and sentence of death are affirmed. In the event this judgment becomes final on direct review when either: (1) the defendant fails to petition timely the United States Supreme Court for certiorari; or (2) that Court denies his petition for certiorari; and either (a) the defendant, having filed for and been denied certiorari, fails to petition the United States Supreme Court timely, under its prevailing rules, for rehearing of denial of certiorari; or (b) that court denies his petition for rehearing, the trial judge shall, upon receiving notice from this Court under La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 923 of finality of direct appeal, and before signing the warrant of execution, as provided by La. R.S. 15:567(B), immediately notify the Louisiana Indigent Defense Assistance Board and provide the Board with reasonable time in which: (1) to enroll counsel to represent the defendant in any State post-conviction proceedings, if appropriate, pursuant to its authority under La. R. S. 15:149.1; and (2) to litigate expeditiously the claims raised in that original application, if filed in the state courts. AFFIRMED.

01/19/05

SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA NO. 01-KA-2730 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. CLARENCE HARRIS, JR. On Appeal from the Criminal District Court, for the Parish of Orleans, Honorable Julian Parker, Judge TRAYLOR, J. On October 14, 1993, an Orleans Parish grand jury indicted the defendant, Clarence Harris, Jr., for the August 17, 1993 first degree murder of Katie Carlin. On September 19, 1997, the jury returned a unanimous verdict of guilty as charged. At the conclusion of the penalty phase, the jury unanimously returned the sentence of death, after unanimously finding three aggravating circumstances: (1) the defendant committed the murder while knowingly creating a risk of death or great bodily harm to more than one person; (2) the defendant was engaged in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of aggravated rape and/or aggravated kidnapping; and (3) the offense was committed in an especially heinous, atrocious or cruel manner. On direct appeal to this Court under La. Const. art. 5,

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