State v. Morgan

h Granted. The state seeks review of the trial court’s judgment precluding the use of one of defendant’s prior convictions in his habitual offender adjudication and sentencing. The trial court ruled the state failed to prove defendant entered a valid guilty plea in Multnomah County, Oregon, to delivering cocaine, a felony offense if committed in Louisiana, and could therefore establish him only a second, not third, felony offender. The trial court thereafter vacated defendant’s initial sentence on count three charging aggravated incest in a multiple count indictment, and resen-tenced him as a…