STATE v. LAWRENCE

No. KA 4117.

487 So.2d 538 (1986)

STATE of Louisiana v. Perry LAWRENCE.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

April 11, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara B. Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Pamela S. Moran, A. Hammond Scott, Asst. Dist. Attys., New Orleans, for the State.

Kendall P. Green, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendant.

Before GULOTTA, SCHOTT and BARRY, JJ.


SCHOTT, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of possession of heroin in violation of LSA-R.S. 40:966(C)(1). Pursuant to R.S. 15:529.1 he was sentenced as a second offender to ten years at hard labor.

Two narcotics officers testified that they were patrolling a high crime area in New Orleans when they saw defendant standing in front of a bar with three others. As they approached they saw him reach into his boot and retrieve a cellophane packet. They stopped in front...

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