State v. Wesley
Louisiana Court of Appeal
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…
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- United States v. GoodwinSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
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