Legal Opinion
State v. Mead
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided April 22, 2015No. 2014-K-1051PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAUL A. BONIN, Judge.
|, Alvin Mead is serving a life-without-parole sentence at Angola. Found guilty of possessing a large amount of cocaine in 1999, Mr. Mead was then adjudicated a third-felony offender under the Habitual Offender Law. His most recent post-conviction filing in the district court is a motion to vacate an illegal sentence in which Mr. Mead claimed that deficiencies in the State’s proof respecting the two predicate felonies charged in his multiple bill resulted in an illegal sentence being imposed. The district court, finding that the life-without-parole sentence imposed upon…
2Cases cited32 opinions
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- State Ex Rel. Melinie v. StateSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1996
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- State v. CottonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2010
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