STATE v. SHOLAR

No. 35,047-KA.

801 So.2d 534 (2001)

STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. Joseph Matthew SHOLAR, Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Dissenting Opinion November 5, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven R. Thomas, Mansfield, J. Wilson Rambo, Louisiana Appellate Project, Counsel for Appellant.

Richard Ieyoub, Attorney General, Baton Rouge, Don Burkett, District Attorney, Many, Melissa Sugar, Assistant District Attorney, Counsel for Appellee.

Before BROWN, STEWART and PEATROSS, JJ.


Dissenting Opinion of Judge Stewart, November 5, 2001.

BROWN, J.

Defendant was sentenced to 15 years at hard labor after pleading guilty to aggravated burglary. After his motion for reconsideration (or alternatively, to set aside the guilty plea) was denied, defendant filed a motion to amend the sentence. The court amended the sentence to ten years at hard labor. Defendant subsequently filed another motion to reconsider on the same grounds as the original...

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