State v. Brown

_JjThe defendant, Conner Ray Brown, was convicted by a jury of one count of second degree murder, a violation of La. R.S. 14:80.1. The trial court sentenced Brown to the mandatory term of life imprisonment at hard labor without parole, probation or suspension of sentence. The defendant obtained an out-of-time appeal. The defendant’s appellate counsel filed a motion to withdraw, together with a brief pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967), alleging that there are no nonfrivolous issues upon which to base an appeal. For the following reasons, we…