State v. Mendenhall

BROWN, Chief Judge.

| ^Defendant, Darius Mendenhall, pled guilty to distributing a legend drug, Pali-peridone,1 to a confidential informant, a violation of La. R.S. 40:1238.1, and conspiring to distribute a controlled dangerous substance, cocaine, in violation of La. R.S. 40:967(A).2 In exchange for defendant’s guilty plea, the state dismissed a third count of distribution of a counterfeit drug and agreed not to file a habitual offender bill. The state also recommended that the sentences run concurrently.

Defendant received concurrent hard labor terms of five years for the distribution of a…