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{{Infobox officeholder

{{Infobox officeholder

|name=Terry Ray Reeves

| name=Terry Ray Reeves

|office=District  Attorney for the [[Louisiana]] 8th Judicial District Court (Winn Parish)

|term_start=January 1991

| office=District  Attorney for the [[Louisiana]] 8th Judicial District Court (Winn Parish)

|term_end=July 22, 2005

| term_start=January 1991

|successor=Martin Sanders "Marty" Sanders, III

| term_end=July 22, 2005

| successor=Martin Sanders "Marty" Sanders, III

| spouse=Name of spouse unabailable (divorced)

| spouse=Name of spouse unabailable (divorced)

| children=Jessie Ray Reeves<br/>

| children=Jessie Ray Reeves<br/>

===Connor v. Reeves===

===Connor v. Reeves===

Early in his tenure as DA, Reeves swore out a warrant which charged Gary R. Connor (born January 1956), a Democrat</ref>who as the chief criminal deputy for the Winn Parish Sheriff's Department, was charged with [[malfeasance]] in office stemming from the investigation into the death on October 24, 1990, of Lisa Meyers Stevenson. Connor was a personal friend of her father. The charge was dropped by the trial court because of the lack of specificity in what constitutes malfeasance in this particular case. Connor and his wife, Rachel, then brought a civil suit against Reeves on the premise that the DA acted maliciously and in concert with the [[grand jury]] to [[Indictment|indict]] Conner. The suit claimed that Reeves's prosecution caused Connor "humiliation, embarrassment, mental anguish, and injury to his reputation." The Connors in their suit set forth three causes of action against Reeves: malicious prosecution, abuse of process, and invasion of privacy. However, the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit in [[Shreveport]]  rejected the suit on the ground that the DA had absolute immunity in the prosecution of Connor. The court held that the Connors "neither allege nor present evidence of any wrongful conduct by Reeves outside of his prosecutorial duties. There is no evidence that he was performing administrative or investigative duties. All of his actions at issue were purely prosecutorial, and thus protected by absolute immunity."<ref name=nugentsuit>{{cite web|url=http://www.leagle.com/decision/19951452649So2d803_11129.xml/CONNOR%20v.%20REEVES|title=''Connor v. Reeves''|date=April 28, 1995|publisher=leagle.com|accessdate=August 25, 2020}}</ref>

Early in his tenure as DA, Reeves swore out a warrant on Gary R. Connor (born January 1956), a Democrat who as the chief criminal deputy for the Winn Parish Sheriff's Department, was charged with [[malfeasance]] in office stemming from the investigation into the death on October 24, 1990, of Lisa Meyers Stevenson. Connor was a personal friend of her father. The charge was dropped by the trial court because of the lack of specificity in what constitutes malfeasance in this particular case. Connor and his wife, Rachel, then brought a civil suit against Reeves on the premise that the DA acted maliciously and in concert with the [[grand jury]] to [[Indictment|indict]] Conner. The suit claimed that Reeves's prosecution caused Connor "humiliation, embarrassment, mental anguish, and injury to his reputation." The Connors in their suit set forth three causes of action against Reeves: malicious prosecution, abuse of process, and invasion of privacy. However, the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit in [[Shreveport]]  rejected the suit on the ground that the DA had absolute immunity in the prosecution of Connor. The court held that the Connors "neither allege nor present evidence of any wrongful conduct by Reeves outside of his prosecutorial duties. There is no evidence that he was performing administrative or investigative duties. All of his actions at issue were purely prosecutorial, and thus protected by absolute immunity."<ref name=nugentsuit>{{cite web|url=http://www.leagle.com/decision/19951452649So2d803_11129.xml/CONNOR%20v.%20REEVES|title=''Connor v. Reeves''|date=April 28, 1995|publisher=leagle.com|accessdate=August 25, 2020}}</ref>

===Nugent v. Phelps===

===Nugent v. Phelps===

==Suicide by firearm==

==Suicide by firearm==

Reeves died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound two weeks after his 59th birthday,<ref name=jleggett>{{cite web|url=http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_archive.html

Reeves died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound two weeks after his 59th birthday,<ref name=jleggett>{{cite web|url=http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_archive.html

|title=Web site hit for criticising  Winn DA candidate|author=Jim Leggett|date=March 31, 2006|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=May 17, 2015}}</ref> amid allegations of [[embezzlement]] and [[extortion]] in office. He was accused of having used at least $49,000 in public funds for personal dinners and trips. He killed himself with a single bullet to the chest from a .38 caliber handgun between 5:30 and 9 p.m. on July 22, 2005, at an empty house in Winnfield that he owned. According to the coroner, Dr. Randolph Layne Williams (born April 1948), the bullet entered the left front chest and exited from the back but did not hit the heart. Williams said that Reeves had "been under a good deal of scrutiny and investigation by various agencies recently," but Reeves left no suicide note.<ref name=nola>"Winn Parish district attorney apparently kills himself," ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' July 22, 2005.</ref>  

|title=Web site hit for criticising  Winn DA candidate|author=Jim Leggett|date=March 31, 2006|publisher=''[[Alexandria Town Talk]]''|accessdate=August 25, 2020}}</ref> amid allegations of [[embezzlement]] and [[extortion]] in office. He was accused of having used at least $49,000 in public funds for personal dinners and trips. He killed himself with a single bullet to the chest from a .38 caliber handgun between 5:30 and 9 p.m. on July 22, 2005, at an empty house in Winnfield that he owned. According to the coroner, Dr. Randolph Layne Williams (born April 1948), the bullet entered the left front chest and exited from the back but did not hit the heart. Williams said that Reeves had "been under a good deal of scrutiny and investigation by various agencies recently," but Reeves left no suicide note.<ref name=nola>"Winn Parish district attorney apparently kills himself," ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' July 22, 2005.</ref>  

The office of the then state Attorney General Charles Foti would not confirm whether Reeves was facing an indictment. Several months before Reeves's death, the office of then Louisiana Legislative Auditor Steve Theriot said that the DA had not kept proper records of $169,000 for costs of conference and seminars. Reeves spent his $275,000 budget for 2005 by June and still carried a deficit of $400,000 from the preceding year. Reeves sued to force the Winn Parish Police Jury to pay the cost overruns; he claimed the proper budget should have been $500,000 per year, not $275,000.<ref name=nola/> The [[Internal Revenue Service]] investigated to determine if Reeves had paid payroll taxes for his employees. Interim DA Martin Sanders, subsequently defeated in a bid for the office, cut some employee salaries by 25 percent, reduced hours for others, but still called for the $500,000 budget that Reeves had requested from the police jury. Sanders continued to pursue the suit against the jury.

The office of the then state Attorney General Charles Foti would not confirm whether Reeves was facing an indictment. Several months before Reeves's death, the office of then Louisiana Legislative Auditor Steve Theriot said that the DA had not kept proper records of $169,000 for costs of conference and seminars. Reeves spent his $275,000 budget for 2005 by June and still carried a deficit of $400,000 from the preceding year. Reeves sued to force the Winn Parish Police Jury to pay the cost overruns; he claimed the proper budget should have been $500,000 per year, not $275,000.<ref name=nola/> The [[Internal Revenue Service]] investigated to determine if Reeves had paid payroll taxes for his employees. Interim DA Martin Sanders, subsequently defeated in a bid for the office, cut some employee salaries by 25 percent, reduced hours for others, but still called for the $500,000 budget that Reeves had requested from the police jury. Sanders continued to pursue the suit against the jury.