State v. Washington

jjBYRNES, Judge.

On remand from the Supreme Court of Louisiana, relator’s application for writ of certiorari and prohibition is granted to review the state’s motion to reconsider defendant’s sentence.

After a jury found Joseph Washington guilty of possession of phencyclidine (PCP) in Orleans Parish in violation of LSA-R.S. 40:966(0(2), the trial court sentenced the defendant on October 26,1993 to ten years at hard labor. The state filed a multiple bill, and on November 10, 1993, the defendant admitted to the prior conviction of possession of PCP in Jefferson Parish. The trial court vacated and…