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STATE v. FOREST

No. KA 2988.

477 So.2d 866 (1985)

STATE of Louisiana v. Clinton FOREST.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

October 11, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Michael E. McMahon, Asst. Dist. Atty., New Orleans, for appellee.

Craig Colwart, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

Before SCHOTT, KLEES and BYRNES, JJ.

SCHOTT, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of simple escape in violation of LSA-R.S. 14:110 and sentenced to two years at hard labor. At the time of this offense he had been sentenced to the Department of Corrections for a previous offense and was being held at the Department's Jackson Baracks facility in New Orleans where he was participating in a maintenance program. The principal issue is whether defendant's status was equivalent...

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