State v. Barfield

GREMILLION, Judge.

|!Defendant, Calvin Charles Barfield, was convicted of simple escape, in violation of La.R.S. 14:110, and was initially ordered to serve four years at hard labor, with the first two years to be served without benefit of probation, parole, and suspension of sentence. Prior to the conclusion of the hearing, however, the prosecution filed a habitual offender bill charging Defendant as a fourth felony offender.

Following presentation of the evidence at the habitual offender hearing, the trial court vacated Defendant’s prior sentence. The trial court found Defendant to be a second…