A Baton Rouge man was found guilty Thursday of kicking down the door of his former fiancée s Metairie apartment and fatally shooting her in a cocaine-fueled rage that authorities say
Supporters erupted in applause Friday as a New Orleans judge acquitted Catina Curley of second-degree murder in the killing of her husband, finding that the fatal shooting in 2005 was a justified act of self-defense.
Criminal District Court Judge Arthur Hunter said âoverwhelming evidenceâ showed the shooting was the product of years of abuse that Curley suffered before killing her husband Renaldo inside their New Orleans East home, four months before Hurricane Katrina.
Curley spent 10 years and 11 months locked up before the Supreme Court threw out her conviction and ordered a retrial last year, finding that her original trial attorney should have called experts on battered woman syndrome.