Denied.
JOHNSON, J., dissents from denial, would grant and assigns reasons.
JOHNSON, J., would grant the writ for the following reasons.
A jury convicted defendant of distribution of a substance falsely represented to be cocaine in violation of LSA-R.S. 40:971.1. He was sentenced to five years imprisonment at hard labor pursuant to adjudication as a third felony offender (LSA-R.S.15:529.1).
The facts surrounding defendant's arrest are as follows...
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