State v. Cooper

SATZ, Judge.

Defendant, Leonard Cooper, was found guilty by a jury of four crimes: escape from confinement, armed criminal action in effecting that escape, aiding the escape of another prisoner and armed criminal action in perpetrating that crime. The court found defendant to be a persistent and dangerous offender and orally sentenced him to life on the charge of escape, ten years on the charge of aiding the escape of another and twenty years on each charge of armed criminal action. The life sentence, the ten year sentence and one of the twenty year sentences were to be served consecutively.…