Legal Opinion

State v. Little

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided August 15, 2018No. 52,131-KAPublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.

*1040The defendant, Michael Anthony Little, Jr., was charged with second degree murder for a homicide he committed when he was 17 years old. On the day of trial, he accepted the state's offer of a guilty plea to the responsive offense of manslaughter. After the court accepted his guilty plea, it sentenced Little to the maximum sentence of 40 years at hard labor with parole eligibility. Little now appeals his sentence as excessive. We affirm.

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On June 26, 2016, at 3:47 a.m., officers from the Monroe Police Department were dispatched to investigate a "suspicious vehicle" and "shots fired" at the…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  2. State v. DortheySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1993
  3. State v. BonannoSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1980
  4. State v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2004
  5. State v. CozzettoSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2008

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