KIMBALL, Justice.
We granted certiorari to consider whether a defendant can be adjudicated a third offender pursuant to Louisiana's Habitual Offender Law, La. R.S. 15:529.1, when, at the time he committed his second offense, he could not have been adjudicated a second offender. Based on our interpretation of Louisiana's Habitual Offender Law, we conclude that defendant was properly adjudged a third offender notwithstanding the fact that he could not have previously...
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