State v. Whittington

hThis criminal appeal arises from the Twenty-Sixth Judicial District Court, Parish of Bossier, State of Louisiana. The defendant, Robert Dillard Whittington, III, was initially charged with communication of false information of planned arson (a violation of La. R.S. 14:54.1) and terrorizing (a violation of La. R.S. 14:40.1). Whittington pled guilty to terrorizing with an agreed five-year sentence cap; in exchange, the prosecutor dismissed the arson charge as well as charges raised in a separate bill not included in the record. Whit-tington was sentenced to serve five years at hard labor. He…