STATE v. DOTSON

No. 2015-KA-0191.

187 So.3d 79 (2016)

STATE of Louisiana, v. Derrick A. DOTSON.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

February 17, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon A. Cannizzaro, Jr. , District Attorney, Matthew C. Kirkham , Assistant District Attorney, New Orleans, LA, for Appellee/State of Louisiana.

Mary Constance Hanes , Louisiana Appellate Project, New Orleans, LA, for Defendant/Appellant.

(Court composed of Judge TERRI F. LOVE, Judge ROLAND L. BELSOME, Judge JOY COSSICH LOBRANO).


Defendant Derrick A. Dotson appeals his 2014 conviction and sentence for forcible rape, for which he was adjudicated a third-felony habitual offender and sentenced to the mandatory term of life imprisonment at hard labor, without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence. For the reasons that follow we find...

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