State v. Goldsby

The defendant Goldsby was originally charged with oral sexual battery. Pursuant to plea negotiations, the defendant pleaded guilty to attempting to incite a felony (crime against nature). La.R.S. 14:27, 28. The defendant was sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and serve one year in the parish jail.

The defendant appealed his sentence as excessive, including as an assignment of error that the sentence was inconsistent with the stated reasons for sentence.

During the course of defendant’s “Boyk-inization” he was informed by the trial judge that the maximum imposable sentence for attempting to incite…