State v. Louviere

DOUCET, Judge.

The defendant, Michael Keith Louviere, appeals a conviction for perjury, a violation of La.R.S. 14:123.

The penury charge arose out of another criminal proceeding in the Fifteenth Judicial District Court. In Docket Number 43918, the defendant was convicted by a jury of forcible rape. He was sentenced on May 30, 1980 to serve the maximum sentence allowed by statute: Forty years at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence. Approximately eight years after the conviction, the defendant filed an application for post-conviction relief complaining that…