Defendant was convicted of possession of cocaine. He was adjudicated to be a fourth felony offender. The trial judge sentenced defendant to thirty months at hard labor, below the statutory minimum of twenty years mandated for a fourth offender under La. R.S. 15:529.1. The court of appeal denied the state's application for writs and the state now applies to this court.
Louisiana's judiciary maintains the...
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