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STATE v. SOWELL

No. 31296-KA.

718 So.2d 633 (1998)

STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. Chad Lewis SOWELL, II, Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

September 23, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Indigent Defender Board by Charles Jacobs, Baton Rouge, for Appellant.

Richard Ieyoub, Attorney General, James M. Bullers, District Attorney, Robert Randall Smith, Assistant District Attorney, for Appellee.

Before MARVIN, C.J., and NORRIS and CARAWAY, JJ.

MARVIN, Chief Judge.

We do not find the maximum sentence after a plea of guilty to DWI 3rd offense to be constitutionally excessive for this 25-year-old appellant who,

— had a prior DWI conviction in 1991, 1992 and 1994, plus a misdemeanor conviction in 1997 for driving under suspension;

— had a bench warrant for his arrest for failure to appear on a DWI 3rd offense charge pending in another...

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