State v. Bastian

hWALTZER, Judge.

The State invokes our supervisory jurisdiction to review a multiple offender sentence. Specifically, the State argues that the trial court failed to state adequate reasons to support imposition of a six year sentence at hard labor, thus deviating from the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

The defendant was charged by bill of information with two counts of forgery, violations of La.R.S. 14:72. After the defendant was convicted of one count of forgery (the jury could only…