STATE v. LAWSON

No. KA-2760.

474 So.2d 455 (1985)

STATE of Louisiana v. Troy M. LAWSON.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

August 6, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., William R. Campbell, Jr., Patricia E. Black, Asst. Dist. Atty., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

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

Before BARRY, CIACCIO and WILLIAMS, JJ.


BARRY, Judge.

Defendant pleaded guilty to purse snatching (La.R.S. 14:65.1), was adjudged a multiple offender and sentenced to twenty years at hard labor. He assigns as error the length of the sentence and his multiple offender conviction.

Defendant admitted pleading guilty to felony theft in Terrebonne Parish on September 28, 1982, but objected to use of that plea due to an alleged faulty Boykinization. The focus of the claim concerns the trial court's charge...

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