State v. Laiche

CHEHARDY, Chief Judge.

On April 17, 1989, John Laiche entered a guilty plea to violation of LSA-R.S. 40:966(A), distribution of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Following a presen-tence investigation, Laiche was sentenced on November 27, 1989, to serve five years at hard labor, with the trial judge’s recommendation that he be placed in the intensive incarceration program pursuant to LSA-R.S. 14:574.4. Laiche has appealed the sentence.

The defendant’s first assignment of error is that the trial court failed to comply with LSA-C.Cr.P. art. 894.1(B). He contends that, rather than according weight…