State v. Bertrand

KEATY, Judge.

| defendant, Kerry Bertrand, was charged by bill of indictment with the second degree murder of his twenty-year-old stepdaughter, Skylar Credeur, in violation of La.R.S. 14:30.1. He waived formal arraignment and entered a plea of not guilty. A unanimous jury convicted him of the charged offense, and the trial court imposed a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment at hard labor without the benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence. Defendant appeals. For the following reasons, we affirm Defendant’s conviction.

DISCUSSION

On August 21, 2013, authorities responded to a…