Legal Opinion
State v. Cureaux
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided May 1, 2013No. 2012-KA-0335PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JAMES F. McKAY, III, Chief Judge.
h Kerry Cureaux, the defendant, appeals his conviction for possession of heroin and his sentence of twenty years at hard labor as a fourth felony offender pursuant to La. R.S. 15:529.1. We affirm his conviction. However, we reverse the trial court judgment sentencing the defendant as a fourth felony offender, vacate the defendant’s sentence and reinstate the defendant’s original sentence of seven years at hard labor.
STATEMENT OF CASE
On November 18, 2009, the State of Louisiana charged the defendant, by bill of information, with one count of possession of…
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