Justia › U.S. Law › Case Law › Louisiana Case Law › Louisiana Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit Decisions › 2025 › STATE OF LOUISIANA... STATE OF LOUISIANA VS. SULLIVAN WALTER (La. App. 4 Cir. 2025) Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit Docket Number: 2024-KA-0420 Date Decided: April 29, 2025 Case opinion for LA Court of Appeal STATE OF LOUISIANA v. SULLIVAN WALTER. Read the Court's full decision on FindLaw. The State through the Attorney General's Office (“State”) appeals the trial court's judgment that granted Sullivan Walter's petition for compensation pursuant to the Louisiana Wrongful Conviction Compensation Statute, La. R.S. 15:572.8, and awarded him the statutory maximum of $480,000 from the Louisiana Wrongful Conviction Compensation Fund. For the reasons that follow, we amend the ... RLB SCJ NEK The State through the Attorney General’s Office (“State”) appeals the trial court’s judgment that granted Sullivan Walter’s petition for compensation pursuant to the Louisiana Wrongful Conviction Compensation Statute, La. R.S. 15:572.8, and awarded him the statutory maximum of $480,000 from the Louisiana The State through the Attorney General's Office ("State") appeals the trial court's judgment that granted Sullivan Walter's petition for compensation pursuant to the Louisiana Wrongful Conviction Compensation Statute, La. R.S. 15:572.8, and awarded him the statutory maximum of $480,000 from the Louisiana Wrongful Conviction Compensation Fund. For the reasons that follow, we amend the judgment ... NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans man is slowly inching closer to justice. Sullivan Walter was wrongly convicted and then sentenced for a crime he didn't commit. Nearly four decades later the state is ...