EDWARDS, Judge.
Defendant was indicted for second degree murder, but pursuant to an agreement between the prosecutor and the defense, that charge was reduced to manslaughter and defendant pled guilty and was sentenced to 15 years at hard labor. Defendant was sentenced January 26, 1983, and although his sentence provided for him to be committed to the State prison, he remained in the Tangipahoa Parish jail.
On May 22, 1985, having served over two years of his...
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