State v. Baker

| following a jury trial, the defendant, Donnie R. Baker, Jr., was convicted of aggravated kidnapping and carjacking for violations of La. R.S. 14:44 and 14:64.2, respectively. The trial court imposed a life sentence without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence for the aggravated kidnapping conviction, and it imposed a 20-year sentence at hard labor without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence for the carjacking conviction. The sentences were ordered to run consecutively. Baker now appeals, urging three assignments of error. For the following reasons, we…