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- Title: State v. Henry
- Author : Supreme Court Of Louisiana
- Release Date : January 27, 1983
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 52 KB
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Richard Henry was charged by grand jury indictment with the crime of aggravated rape, a violation of La. R.S. 14:42. He pled not guilty. After trial by jury, he was found guilty as charged and sentenced to the mandatory term of life imprisonment without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence. Defendant appeals his conviction urging only one argument, that the trial court erred in admitting evidence of another crime. For the reasons which follow, we find no merit to the argument, and accordingly, affirm the conviction and sentence. The facts involved in this case are as follows. At approximately 3:00 a.m. on January 27, 1982, the victim, Ms. Belainesh Negash a native of Ethiopia, was driving home after leaving her waitressing job at a Baton Rouge restaurant. She dropped off a co-worker, to whom she had given a ride home, and thereafter at some point noticed a red light flashing inside a vehicle which was following her. Assuming it was the police, she stopped her car. The vehicle which had been following her stopped behind her and a black male got out of the vehicle and approached her window. He was dressed in street clothes, a red short sleeve shirt and a jacket. He asked the victim for her driver's license. She gave him her driving permit. 1 The male looked at the permit and said it was alright, which raised Negash's suspicion since she was not accompanied by a licensed driver as was required by the permit. The male told her that she had run a stop sign. She protested that she had not. The male told her he was going to let her go this time, and started to return to his car. He apparently changed his mind and requested again that the victim stop. He then told her that he was not going to let her go and requested that she come back to his car while he called other police officers.