Inmate to Get Out of Death Row, Not Jail

Shareef Cousin, who at 17 became the youngest person sent to death row in Louisiana, will not be retried on charges he murdered a man in a holdup outside a restaurant in New Orleans’ French Quarter. The district attorney dropped the case after the Louisiana Supreme Court last year ordered a new trial for Cousin on grounds that prosecutors improperly used hearsay evidence that he admitted to the crime. But Cousin won’t get out of prison. He is serving a 20-year sentence for four armed robberies unrelated to the slaying.