STATE v. SERPAS

No. 2001-K-1477.

798 So.2d 1178 (2001)

STATE of Louisiana v. Sherry SERPAS.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

October 3, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry F. Connick, District Attorney, Paige Cline, Assistant District Attorney, Brandi Hilden, Assistant District Attorney, Aimee Peralta, Law Clerk, New Orleans, LA, Counsel for Relator.

(Court composed of Judge STEVEN R. PLOTKIN, Judge MICHAEL E. KIRBY, and Judge MAX N. TOBIAS, Jr.)


Judge MAX N. TOBIAS, JR.

The defendant, Sherry Serpas, was charged with violating La. R.S. 40:966(A), possession of heroin, on 31 May 2001, which provided for a sentence of "imprisonment at hard labor for not less than four years nor more than ten years without benefit of probation or suspension of sentence." La. R.S. 40:966(C)(1). After commission of the crime, but before the sentencing, the Legislature amended this statute...

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