State v. Fox

AMY, Judge.

liThe defendant was charged with second degree murder in connection with the death of Mychel Cleaver. A jury found the defendant guilty of manslaughter, and the trial court sentenced the defendant to forty years at hard labor with credit for time served. The defendant appeals. For the following reasons, we affirm, with instructions.

Factual and Procedural Background

The body of the victim, Mychel Cleaver,1 was discovered in a ditch outside Lake Charles, Louisiana in January of 2012. Dwane Edward Fox, Mychel’s “on-again, off-again” boyfriend and the defendant herein, was identified as…