BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal judges overturned a Baton Rouge man’s murder conviction Thursday.
The court reversed Curtis Lee Stewart Jr.’s second-degree murder conviction and life sentence due to insufficient evidence. The case stemmed from an April 2021 shooting near a store on Prescott Road that left Devonta Ennis dead.
Judges wrote that the trial court’s conclusion that shots were fired by Stewart was speculative, given the lack of physical evidence tying him to the case…