Robert Swift v. Bruce Lynn, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Corrections

DUHE, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner-appellant Robert Swift was convicted of the burglary of an inhabited dwelling under La.R.S. 14:62.2. 1 At the sentencing hearing, the state filed a multiple offender bill of information alleging that Swift had a prior felony conviction for simple burglary. The state read a paragraph from the bill alleging that conviction, to which Swift’s counsel admitted. On prompting from the trial judge, Swift personally admitted the prior conviction. Swift was sentenced as a multiple offender to ten years imprisonment without parole. State v. Swift, 449 So.2d 654…