Legal Opinion
State v. Burt
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided October 9, 2002No. 2002-KA-0258PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
| Judge TERRI F. LOVE.
Defendant, Robert J. Burt, was found guilty of forcible rape and sexual battery. He was sentenced to ten years at hard labor for the forcible rape conviction, and ten years at hard labor for the sexual battery conviction, with the sentences to run concurrently. Defendant appeals his conviction and alleges the following assignments of error: (1) the evidence was insufficient to support the convictions; (2) double jeopardy exists between the rape and sexual battery convictions; and (3) the sentence imposed on the sexual battery conviction was excessive. For the following…
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