STATE v. JAMES

No. K 2149.

458 So.2d 501 (1984)

STATE of Louisiana v. Kenneth JAMES.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

September 19, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Nancy Sharpe, Asst. Dist. Atty., New Orleans, for the State.

Jeffrey Smith, New Orleans, for defendant.

Before REDMANN, C.J., WILLIAMS, J., and L. JULIAN SAMUEL, J. pro tem.


REDMANN, Chief Judge.

We granted certiorari to review a ruling holding defendant not punishable as a second offender because the record of his earlier guilty plea lacked a sufficient showing that he was advised of his constitutional rights as required by Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238, 89 S.Ct. 1709, 23 L.Ed. 274 (1969), and State v. Bolton, 379 So.2d 722, 723 (La.1979). We now reverse...

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