STATE v. GORDON

No. 16887-KA.

471 So.2d 815 (1985)

STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. James M. GORDON, Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

June 12, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack & Hudsmith by Wellborn Jack, Jr., Shreveport, for appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, Paul J. Carmouche, Dist. Atty., Robert W. Gillespie, Jr. and John A. Broadwell, Asst. Dist. Attys., Shreveport, for appellee.

Before HALL, MARVIN and NORRIS, JJ.


MARVIN, Judge.

After defendant's probation was revoked in 1982 he was given credit for time served in the parish jail and in the Odyssey House program and was ordered to serve his suspended and concurrent sentences at hard labor of up to 20 years. The sentence of 20 years, imposed in 1980, for distribution of cocaine was held excessive in 1984 by the supreme court in an out-of-time appeal. 444 So.2d 1188 (1984).

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