State v. Gordon

|! Defendant was charged with armed robbery, a violation of La.R.S. 14:64, on December 14, 2010. On March 14, 2011, Defendant pled guilty as charged to armed robbery.1 A presentence investigation report was ordered by the trial court. On April 12, 2011, he was sentenced to forty years at hard labor without the benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence. He made an oral objection to the sentence following the sentencing hearing, which was “assigned error” by the trial court.

Defendant has perfected a timely appeal wherein he challenges the constitutionality of the sentence and…