STATE v. NELSON

No. 09-KA-807.

39 So.3d 658 (2010)

STATE of Louisiana v. Kevais NELSON.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

March 23, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul D. Connick, Jr., District Attorney, Twenty-Fourth Judicial District, Parish of Jefferson, Terry M. Boudreaux, Juliet Clark, Assistant District Attorneys, Gretna, Louisiana, for Plaintiff/Appellee.

Frederick J. Kroenke, Jr., Attorney at Law, Louisiana Appellate Project, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for Defendant/Appellant.

Panel composed of Judges EDWARD A. DUFRESNE, JR., CLARENCE E. McMANUS, and MARC E. JOHNSON.


CLARENCE E. McMANUS, Judge.

Defendant, Kevais Nelson, was convicted by a six person jury of possession of cocaine in violation of LSA-R.S. 40:967(C). After the denial of his Motion in Arrest of Judgment and Alternatively Motion for New Trial, he was sentenced to five years imprisonment at hard labor. Thereafter, pursuant to a multiple offender bill of information, defendant was adjudicated a third felony offender and he was sentenced as a triple felony offender to...

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