Legal Opinion

State v. Strother

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided October 7, 2009No. 09-110PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

THIBODEAUX, Chief Judge.

|, The Defendant, Alton Lane Strother, appeals his jury convictions and sentences for attempted second degree cruelty to a juvenile and cruelty to a juvenile. He was sentenced to serve consecutive ten-year terms at hard labor on each count. For the foregoing reasons, we reserve and vacate the Defendant’s conviction and sentence for attempted second degree cruelty to a juvenile. We affirm his conviction for cruelty to a juvenile, but vacate his sentence due to excessiveness, and remand for resentencing.

ISSUES

We shall consider whether:(1) the evidence was insufficient to…

2Cases cited34 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. State Ex Rel. Graffagnino v. KingSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1983
  3. State v. DuncanSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1982
  4. State v. RichardsonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1983
  5. State v. MoodySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1981

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. State v. StrotherSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2010
  2. State v. SumrallLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2010
  3. State v. MurrayLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2012
  4. State v. R.R.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 2010
  5. State of Louisiana v. Edward D. GreshamLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2010

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