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STATE EX REL. SAM v. BECKER

No. 87-KH-0119.

519 So.2d 122 (1988)

STATE ex rel. William SAM v. Hon. Rudolph F. BECKER, III, Judge.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

February 5, 1988.

Clarification granted. A trial judge's determination to impose uniformly the most severe sanction provided by the legislature for a particular offense does not accord with the goal of individualizing sentences in Louisiana. La.C.Cr.P. art. 894.1; State v. Jackson, 360 So.2d 842 (La.1978). When faced with the decision of whether to suspend a life sentence for heroin distribution under the...

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