State v. Bonier

ORDER

WRIT GRANTED AND MADE PEREMPTORY:

An illegally lenient sentence may be corrected by the sentencing court upon motion of the state or defendant by imposition of a legal sentence of a term of years to be served without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence in accordance with the mandatory provisions of the criminal statute. La.R.S. 14:64; La.C.Cr.P. art. 882; State v. Fraser, 484 So.2d 122 (La.1986).

If the correction of the illegally lenient sentence results in a harsher sentence than that originally imposed as a result of adding parole ineligibility, then the record should…