State v. Tidwell

AMY, Judge.

hThe defendant was convicted of obstruction of justice, a violation of La.R.S. 14:130.1. Thereafter, the State filed a habitual offender bill of information, seeking to have the defendant adjudicated a fourth felony offender. However, the State later filed a motion to reduce the habitual offender bill to third felony offender status. The trial court granted the State’s motion, adjudicated the defendant a third felony offender, and imposed a habitual offender sentence of thirty years at hard labor, without the benefit of probation or suspension of sentence. The defendant appeals.…