State Supreme Court declines to reinstate Houma murder conviction
State Supreme Court declines to reinstate Houma murder conviction A Houma man will face a new trial for the murder of a former deacon after the state Supreme Court declined to reverse a lower court’s decision to overturn his conviction. Leron Calloway, 24, was found guilty June 19, 2015, in the shooting death of 66-year-old former Annunziata Catholic Church deacon Connely Duplantis in an armed robbery of his cell phone on Carolyn Avenue in Houma Nov. 24, 2013. District Judge David Arceneaux sentenced Calloway to life in prison during a hearing Feb. 8, 2017. After reviewing the evidence...
Source: houmatoday.com