State v. Mills

|!Writ granted in part. Defendant was convicted of possession of cocaine based on the presence of residue in a glass pipe and adjudicated as a second felony offender. The district court sentenced him to serve 10 years imprisonment at hard labor, the maximum term of imprisonment authorized by the pertinent statutes. See La. R.S. 15:529.1(A)(1); La. R.S. 40:967(0(2). The court of appeal affirmed after finding, in pertinent part, that defendant failed to preserve his excessive sentence claim for review and that defense counsel’s failure to object to the sentence or file a motion to reconsider…