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FOR IMMEDIATE NEWS RELEASE NEWS RELEASE # 003 FROM: CLERK OF SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA

The Opinions handed down on the 19th day of January, 2006 , are as follows:

BY KIMBALL, J. :

2004-KA-1312

STATE OF LOUISIANA v. ANTHONY SCOTT (Parish of Assumption) (First Degree Murder) For the reasons assigned, we affirm defendant's conviction for the murders of Lisa Dupuis and Jacqueline Guillot Blanchard. We pretermit review of the penalty phase of defendant's trial and remand to the district court for a hearing in conformity with this opinion to determine whether defendant is mentally retarded. CONVICTION AFFIRMED. CASE REMANDED FOR EVIDENTIARY HEARING CONSISTENT WITH THIS OPINION TO DETERMINE WHETHER DEFENDANT IS MENTALLY RETARDED. CALOGERO, C.J., dissents and assigns reasons. JOHNSON, J., dissents and assigns reasons. WEIMER, J., concurs and assigns reasons.

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SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
No. 04-KA-1312 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. ANTHONY SCOTT
ON APPEAL FROM THE TWENTY-THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, FOR THE PARISH OF ASSUMPTION, HONORABLE ALVIN TURNER, JR., JUDGE

KIMBALL, Justice On June 22, 1998, an Assumption Parish grand jury indicted defendant, Anthony Scott, for the June 4, 1998, first degree murders of Jacqueline Guillot Blanchard and Lisa Ann Dupuis. On April 28, 1999, 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 finding the existence of three aggravating circumstances: (1) the offender was engaged in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of armed robbery, (2) the offender knowingly created a risk of death or great bodily harm to more than one person, and (3) the offender was engaged in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of aggravated arson. On direct appeal to this court pursuant to La. Const. art. V,

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