PEATROSS, Judge.
The State charged Defendant, Michael Dewayne Cooper, with second degree murder, but agreed to accept his guilty plea to manslaughter, a violation of LSA-R.S. 14:31, punishable by no more than 40 years at hard labor. The district court sentenced Defendant to serve 15 years at hard labor and denied a timely motion to reconsider sentence. Finding no merit to Defendant's contentions that his sentence is constitutionally excessive and that the trial court...
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