State v. Lampton

The state charged defendant by bill of information with possession of cocaine in violation of La.R.S. 40:967. After the trial court denied his motion to suppress the evidence, defendant entered a plea of guilty as charged, reserving his right to seek review of the trial court’s adverse ruling on the suppression issue. State v. Crosby, 338 So.2d 584 (La.1976). The trial *559court sentenced him to two years imprisonment at hard labor, suspended, with two years of active probation. On appeal, the Fourth Circuit reversed defendant’s conviction and sentence on grounds that the trial court erred in…