STATE v. McGEE

No. 95-K-1863.

663 So.2d 495 (1995)

STATE of Louisiana v. Perry McGEE.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

October 18, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry F. Connick, District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Giustina Persich, Assistant District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Maurice Edwin Landrieu, Jr., Assistant District Attorney of Orleans Parish, New Orleans, for the State of Louisiana.

Lindsey Williams, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendant.

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


PLOTKIN, Judge.

We grant certiorari at the request of the Court en banc, which on its own motion asks this panel to reconcile conflicting opinions of this Court regarding whether a trial judge can decline to impose a mandatory fine when sentencing an indigent defendant.1 In unpublished decisions, this Court has previously upheld the trial court's refusal to impose a mandatory fine when the defendant was indigent. See State v. Davis...

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