State v. Sharkey

SEXTON, Judge.

Defendant appeals as excessive two concurrent 20-year hard labor sentences * imposed following his guilty plea to two counts of distribution of cocaine in exchange for the dismissal of a third count. We reverse and remand for resentencing in accordance with the law.

The record reveals that on February 24, 1991, an undercover agent went to a More-house Parish nightclub called the Big Apple. Sharkey approached the agent and asked “What’s up?” The agent stated he was looking for some twenty-five rocks (meaning crack cocaine having a value of $25 per rock). The pair went around to…