About this episode

The episode discusses the complex legal case of Ricky Joseph Langley, who was involved in the homicide of six-year-old Jeremy Guillory in Louisiana.

Description: In 1992, six‑year‑old Jeremy Guillory disappeared while looking for a friend in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. Hours later, deputies found his body in the closet of a man named Ricky Joseph Langley — a man with a long history of mental illness and a criminal past. What followed was one of the most legally complex homicide prosecutions in Louisiana history: three trials, an overturned death sentence, a reinstated second‑degree murder conviction, and a decades‑long debate about mental illness, intent, and the limits of double jeopardy. Content Warnings: Child homicide, mental illness, sexual offenses, racial discrimination in the justice system. State v. Langley , 2006‑KK‑1041 (La. 2007) https://law.justia.com/cases/louisiana/supreme-court/2007/06-1041-opn.html ( law.justia.com in Bing) State v. Langley , 1995‑1489 (La. 1998) https://law.justia.com/cases/louisiana/supreme-court/1998/95-1489-0.html ( law.justia.com in Bing) State v. Langley , 1995‑1489 (La. 2002) https://law.justia.com/cases/louisiana/supreme-court/2002/95-1489-0.html ( law.justia.com in Bing) State v. Langley , 04‑269 (La. App. 3 Cir. 2004)…

Topics covered

• child homicide

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