Trial and Conviction
Frank and LaCaze were indicted by an Orleans Parish Grand Jury on April 28, 1995. Their trials were severed, and LaCaze was tried first on July 17–21, 1995, found guilty as charged, and sentenced to death. Frank's trial began on September 5, 1995. The evidence against her was so overwhelming that Frank's attorneys did not mount a defense (despite subpoenaing 40 witnesses). On September 12, 1995, the jury returned a guilty verdict on all counts and recommended the death penalty. She was formally sentenced to death on October 20, 1995 and sent to Death Row at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women, in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, very near Baton Rouge.
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