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SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA NO. 96-K-0221 STATE OF LOUISIANA V. GARY STACY ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEAL, SECOND CIRCUIT, PARISH OF CADDO, STATE OF LOUISIANA MARCUS, Justice* Gary Stacy was indicted by the grand jury in two separate counts for the second degree murders of Kenneth Loston and Latson Williams in violation of La. R.S. 14:30.1(A)(1) and 14.30.1(A)(2). After trial by jury, defendant was found guilty of manslaughter on

both counts and sentenced to serve ten years at hard labor on each count with sentences to run consecutively. The court of appeal

reversed the convictions and sentences and remanded the case for a new trial finding that the trial judge erred in restricting the scope of the defendant's voir dire examination.2 Upon the state's

application, we granted certiorari to review the correctness of this decision.3

FACTS A double homicide occurred in Shreveport in the early evening of September 28, 1991. The previous evening defendant, Wesley

Gary Stacy, and three companions, Donny Gilliard, Jr.,

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Kimball, J. not on panel.

Rule IV, Part 2,

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