STATE v. GRANIER

No. 90-KA-0117, 90-KA-0118.

570 So.2d 77 (1990)

STATE of Louisiana v. Michael J. GRANIER. consolidated with STATE of Louisiana v. Walker J. LIRETTE.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

October 30, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Atty. Gen., Darryl W. Bubrig, Sr., Dist. Atty., Pointe-A-La-Hache, Gilbert V. Andry, III, Asst. Dist. Atty., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

Timon Webre, Pointe-A-La-Hache, for defendant-appellant Michael J. Granier.

Peter A. Barbee, Pointe-A-La-Hache, for defendant-appellant Walker Lirette.

Before SCHOTT, C.J., and KLEES and PLOTKIN, JJ.


SCHOTT, Chief Judge.

Defendants, Michael J. Granier and Walker J. Lirette, were convicted of distribution of marijuana (R.S. 40:966(A)(1)). Granier was sentenced to ten years at hard labor and Lirette was sentenced to two years at hard labor.

Defendants assert that the trial judge erred when he questioned a juror outside the presence of the defendants in violation of C.Cr.P. art. 831.

After the first day of trial, the trial judge received a phone call...

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