Legal Opinion

State v. Wesley

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided February 26, 2015No. 49,438-KAPublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.

|,After rejecting a guilty plea offer from the state that included a 10-year sentence agreement, the defendant, Christephan Wesley, was tried and convicted by a unanimous jury for attempted armed robbery with a firearm, aggravated battery and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The state filed an habitual offender bill, and Wesley was subsequently sentenced as a third-felony offender to concurrent sentences totaling 65 years. He now appeals, challenging the habitual offender adjudication as a product of prose-cutorial vindictiveness. Finding no merit in this allegation, we affirm…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. North Carolina v. PearceSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  2. Bordenkircher v. HayesSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
  3. State v. DortheySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1993
  4. Blackledge v. PerrySupreme Court of the United States · 1974
  5. United States v. GoodwinSupreme Court of the United States · 1982

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3Cited by6 opinions

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