NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Louisiana’s Supreme Court has denied an appeal from a man sentenced to death for the slaying of 4-year-old girl in 2001.
The American Press in a Friday report quotes the court as saying 43-year-old Jason Manuel Reeves had claimed his attorneys provided ineffective counsel during the penalty phase of his trial. But the court said he was trying “to re-litigate an issue upon which he has already sought review.”
The court says it’s not clear that his lawyers failed to present evidence about his troubled upbringing because Reeves himself didn’t disclose evidence to help explain his difficult childhood and the history of sexual abuse he suffered.
Reeves has been on death row since 2004 for the abduction, rape and killing of Mary Jean Thigpen from Moss Bluff.
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Information from: American Press, http://www.americanpress.com
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