State v. Cooper

The defendant, James Allen Cooper, Jr., was charged by bill of information with failure to properly register as a sex offender, a violation of La. R.S. 15:542.1.4(A)(1). The defendant pled not guilty. The defendant filed a motion to quash the bill of information, which was denied. The defendant withdrew his former plea of not guilty and entered a Crosby plea of guilty as charged, reserving his right to appeal the court's ruling on the motion to quash. See State v. Crosby, 338 So.2d 584 (La. 1976). The court sentenced the defendant to three years imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of…