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State v. Guillory3/11/1998
97-179 (La.App. 3 Cir. 3/11/98)
STATE OF LOUISIANA v. CHRISTOPHER JOSEPH GUILLORY, SR., DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.
APPEAL FROM FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF CALCASIEU, NO. 5708-93, STATE OF LOUISIANA, HONORABLE ARTHUR J. PLANCHARD, J.
This is an appeal of three first degree murder convictions and three consecutive sentences of life imprisonment without benefit of probation, parole or suspension of sentence. The Defendant is Christopher Joseph Guillory, Sr.
The first trial of the Defendant ended on November 21, 1995, after jury selection with the presiding trial Judge declaring a mistrial and then granting a change of venue. Venue for jury selection was moved to East Baton Rouge Parish and jury selection began on April 29, 1996. A twelve person jury, plus alternates, was selected by May 3, 1996. The guilt phase of the trial began in Lake Charles on May 6, 1996, and ended on May 10, 1996. It took the jury from 12:55 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. to return three verdicts of guilty of first degree murder. The penalty phase was conducted on May 11, 1996. After nearly two hours of deliberation, the jury was unable to unanimously agree on a verdict, and the trial Judge then sentenced the Defendant to life imprisonment on each count without benefit of probation, parole or suspension of sentence. Formal imposition of the three consecutive sentences took place on September 13, 1996.
FACTS
Around 11:23 a.m. on Monday, March 22, 1993, Corporal Donald Shillow of the Lake Charles Police Department made a grisly discovery. Inside a machine shop that was also the residence of forty-year-old Daniel Dougay, he found the bodies of Mr. Dougay, his fifteen-year-old son, Robert Dougay, and Aaron Guidry. Aaron Guidry was a fourteen-year-old friend of Robert Dougay and he happened to be spending the night when the murders occurred. From the condition of the bodies, the police could tell that the murders occurred several days earlier.
The corrugated tin building at 2711 Church Street was a small machine shop where Daniel Dougay worked on cars. Lately, Mr. Dougay had been living in the cluttered machine shop even though it did not have electricity or toilet facilities. On the night of Friday, March 19, 1993, young Robert Dougay and Aaron Guidry spent the night with Mr. Dougay because they planned to go to the Iowa Rabbit Festival the next day. The last time anyone heard from any of the three men was at 11:30 p.m. on Friday night when Doris Ewalt spoke with her nephew, Robert Dougay, while he and Aaron Guidry were visiting his grandmother at Lake Charles Memorial Hospital.
On Monday, March 22, 1993, Michael Narcisse was working at Gates Food Store, a convenience store down the street from the machine shop, when his nephew told him that there were three dead bodies in Daniel Dougay's shop. Mr. Narcisse knew the victims and the Defendant, as he would see them often in the store. He refused to believe that anyone would kill Daniel Dougay, so he went to the shop and saw the bodies. Mr. Narcisse then called the police.
The police soon learned that Jeffery Tezeno had been living in the machine shop with Daniel Dougay because Mr. Tezeno had been thrown out of his home by his parents. Daniel Dougay took him in several months earlier, but threw him out of the machine shop shortly before the murders because Mr. Tezeno had stolen equipment used by Mr. Dougay. Through confidential informants, Lieutenant "Candy" Lewis of the Lake Charles Police Department learned that Jeff Tezeno was staying at the Melrose Motel on Broad Street in Lake Charles. When the desk clerk was shown a mug shot of Mr. Tezeno, she identified him and said he was s
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