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SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
NO. 93-KO-1644 STATE OF LOUISIANA versus STEVEN B. QUATREVINGT ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL VICTORY, Justice.1 Steven Quatrevingt was indicted by the grand jury for the first degree murder of Carol Pauline Bissitt, in violation of La. R.S. 14:30. After trial by jury in January 1990, defendant was found guilty as charged. The jury, however, deadlocked on the penalty to be imposed, and on March 9, 1990, the trial judge sentenced defendant to life imprisonment without the benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence. The Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal affirmed.2 State v. Quatrevingt, 617 So.2d 484 (La. App. 4th Cir. 1992). We granted writs to address the admissibility of DNA evidence in Louisiana, 93-1644 (La. 6/16/95); 655 So.2d 351, and now affirm Quatrevingt's conviction and sentence. FACTS Our review of the record indicates that the court of appeal's recitation of the facts is accurate. Thus, we borrow it for this opinion: Testimony at trial established that the victim and her parents lived at the Mark VII Apartments, located at 4508 Papania Drive in New Orleans, Louisiana, and that defendant, Stephen Quatrevingt, was employed by Mark VII as maintenance man for the apartment complex. According to the parents, the victim was a mentally-handicapped,

Judge Lemmie O. Hightower, Court of Appeal, Second Circuit, participating as Associate Justice Pro Tempore, in place of former Associate Justice James L. Dennis. Calogero, J., not on panel. Rule IV, Part 2,

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