Rising Star Criminal Defense Attorney Meets Her Own Tragic End In Louisiana
“She was butchered,” prosecutor Prem Burns said of seeing Chiquita Tate brutally stabbed to death on the floor of her Baton Rouge legal office after working late one night on an upcoming murder case.
Chiquita Tate a rising defense attorney in the Louisiana legal scene had been working late in February 2009 to prepare for an upcoming murder trial when she tragically became a murder victim herself.
The 34-year-old was stabbed 43 times in a brutal attack at her Baton Rouge law office, and left splayed out on the floor with pieces of long dark hair clutched in her hand.