State v. Murphy

CLARENCE E. McMANUS, Judge.

|2Pefendant, Shawn Murphy, a/k/a Don Murphy, pled guilty to possession of cocaine in violation of LSA-R.S. 40:967(C), reserving his right to appeal pursuant to State v. Crosby 1 . He was sentenced as a second felony offender, to ten years imprisonment at hard labor, concurrent with his sentence imposed in case number 08-4532, and concurrent with a sentence for contempt of court for failure to appear. This timely appeal follows.

Defendant pled guilty and did not proceed to trial. As such, the facts were taken from the bill of information, which provides that on or…