State v. Burris

MOTION TO REMAND

LABORDE, Judge.

Defendant, Russell Burris, pleaded guilty to the offense of cultivation of marijuana, a violation of LSA-R.S. 40:966 A(l) and B(2), and was sentenced to serve three years at hard labor. The defendant has appealed. Thereafter, a joint motion for extension of time within which to file briefs was filed by the defense and the State, and was denied by this Court. The basis for that motion was that the defendant and the State had jointly filed in the trial court a motion to permit the withdrawal of the defendant’s guilty plea, which motion, according to defendant, is…