Legal Opinion

State v. Washington

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided November 2, 2011No. 11-490PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

AMY, Judge.

|,The defendant was charged with simple burglary of an inhabited dwelling and obstruction of justice. After several of his pre-trial motions were denied, he entered an Alford plea1 to those charges. The trial court subsequently sentenced the defendant to ten years at hard labor, without the benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence, for the simple burglary of an inhabited dwelling charge and two years at hard labor on the obstruction of justice charge, to run concurrently. The defendant appeals. For the following reasons, we amend his sentence for simple burglary of…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. North Carolina v. AlfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  2. Copenhaver v. John Bonura & Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1925
  3. State v. TelseeSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1983
  4. Grasser Contracting Co. v. City of New OrleansLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1927
  5. Leake v. ParsonLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1925

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. State v. MillerLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2013
  2. State of Louisiana v. Christopher B. MillerLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2013
  3. State of Louisiana v. Davis Dwayne FreemanLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2014
  4. State of Louisiana v. Jason L. ThomasLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2019

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