State v. Brooks

GAUDIN, Judge.

Appellant Karen Brooks was tried before a district judge and a jury on June 25,1991. The judge heard misdemeanor charges of battery of a police officer and resisting arrest while at the same time a jury heard a felony charge, simple burglary of an inhabited dwelling. Brooks was found guilty of all charges.

For each of the misdemeanors, Brooks was sentenced to 15 days in parish prison, to run concurrent with each other (and with a sentence imposed for the felony conviction). This opinion concerns only the lesser convictions, not the felony conviction which is being considered in a…