State v. Brown

| iMARVIN, Chief Judge.

This appeal is a sequel to other appeals by Ranee Brown, each of which stems from the state using, as a predicate offense to enhance sentencing for later crimes, Brown’s plea of guilty to simple burglary in 1983 in the First Judicial District Court in Caddo Parish. See State ex rel. Brown v. Bolin, 575 So.2d 382 (La.1991); State v. Brown, 602 So.2d 252 (La.App. 2d Cir.1992), 626 So.2d 851 (La. App. 2d Cir.1993).

In the 1993 appeal Brown complained of the state using the 1983 conviction as a predicate offense to enhance his sentence after he had pleaded guilty to forcible…