MARVIN, Chief Judge.
A maximum sentence of 30 years is not constitutionally excessive for this 31-year-old appellant, Frank Payton, convicted by a jury of distribution of cocaine (LRS 40:967),
—who had a prior conviction for the same offense and who returned to drug dealing soon after his October 1993 arrest on the present charge, as evidenced by his guilty plea to a January 1994 charge of possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute;
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