STATE v. JOHNSON

No. 97-K-0403.

693 So.2d 246 (1997)

STATE of Louisiana v. Walter JOHNSON.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

April 16, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry F. Connick, District Attorney, Kathleen Anne Mumphrey, Assistant District Attorney, New Orleans, for Relator, State of Louisiana.

Before CIACCIO, JONES and WALTZER, JJ.


CIACCIO, Judge.

For the second time, on the application of the State of Louisiana, we grant certiorari to review the trial judge's sentencing of the defendant to thirty months at hard labor as a fourth offender rather than to the mandated minimum sentence of twenty years.

The defendant, Walter Johnson, was charged by bill of information with possession of cocaine, La. R.S. 40:967(C), and with a third offense for possession of marijuana, La. R.S. 40:966(C)...

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