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CITY OF BATON ROUGE v. BLAKELY

No. 96-KA-1742.

699 So.2d 1053 (1997)

CITY OF BATON ROUGE v. Lonnie BLAKELY.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

September 9, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard P. Ieyoub, Attorney General, Veronica R. Jones, Carl J. Jackson, Baton Rouge, for Applicant.

Leon D. Jackson, Baton Rouge, for Respondent.

KNOLL, Justice.

At issue in this case is the ability of the City of Baton Rouge to amend its Plan of Government to increase the maximum penalty for the violation of a city ordinance after the Louisiana Constitution of 1974.

On June 17, 1995, Lonnie Blakely was arrested and charged with misdemeanor theft, a violation of Title 13:67 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Baton Rouge, which carried a maximum penalty of six months in prison, a five hundred dollar...

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