State v. O'Brien

| .¿Defendant, Benson Harrison O’Brien, III, was originally charged by grand jury indictment with second degree murder, a violation of La. R.S. 14:30.1, and pled not guilty. The State subsequently amended the indictment to charge defendant with manslaughter, a violation of La. R.S. 14:31, and defendant pled guilty to the amended charge. The trial court sentenced defendant to forty years imprisonment at hard *630labor. Defendant now appeals, assigning error to the trial court’s denial of his motion for new trial filed approximately one year after his guilty plea and sentencing. For the following…