Defendant, Thomas J. Ratigan, plead guilty to simple burglary, unlawful flight from an officer and speeding 100 m.p.h. in a 55 m.p.h. zone. Thereafter, a pre-sentence report was ordered. Subsequently defendant, age 18 at the time, was sentenced to six years at hard labor on the simple burglary conviction. He now appeals his burglary sentence as excessive.
As aforementioned, the defendant is young....
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