State v. Meadows

On January 10, 2017, Billy R. Meadows pled guilty to second degree cruelty to a juvenile, and was subsequently adjudicated a fourth felony offender pursuant to La. R.S. 15:529.1. As a result of the habitual offender adjudication, Meadows' sentence was enhanced from 40 years of imprisonment at hard labor to imprisonment for the rest of his natural life. Meadows urges the following assignments of error: (1) the State's evidence was insufficient to prove that the 10-year "cleansing period" of La. R.S. 15:529.1(C) had not expired; (2) the evidence was insufficient to prove Meadows' identity as…