Legal Opinion
State v. Wright
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided August 17, 1988No. 19661-KAPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRED W. JONES, Jr., Judge.
After a jury trial, the defendant Wright was found guilty of five counts of armed robbery (R.S. 14:64). He was sentenced to serve five prison terms of 99 years each, without benefit of parole, to run consecutively, except for the two counts involving the same store robbery, which were to be served concurrently with each other, and consecutively to the other sentences.
The defendant appealed, reserving three assignments of error, raising the issues to be discussed hereinafter.
Factual Context
On October 25, 1986 at 10:00 a.m. the defendant was driving his sister’s red…
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