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STATE v. RIDEAU

No. 2005-1470.

943 So.2d 559 (2006)

STATE of Louisiana v. Wilbert RIDEAU.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

November 2, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Wayne Frey, Carla S. Sigler, Assistant District Attorney, Lake Charles, Louisiana, for Appellee, State of Louisiana.

George Kendall, Holland & Knight, New York, New York, for Appellant, Wilbert Rideau.

Court composed of ULYSSES GENE THIBODEAUX, Chief Judge, SYLVIA R. COOKS and JAMES T. GENOVESE, Judges.

COOKS, Judge.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

On January 15, 2005, Wilbert Rideau was convicted of manslaughter. He waived the delays for sentencing. The trial court sentenced Rideau to serve the maximum term of twenty-one years at hard labor, with credit for time served.1 Since he had already served forty-four years in Angola, he was released from custody and became a free man. As part of the sentence, the trial court ordered Rideau ...

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