Shinault v. State

OPINION

BOLGER, Judge.

Annie Shinault is challenging the sentence she received for her participation with her co-defendants Douglas McClain and Brenda Cleveland in the torture and abuse of two women.

Background

McClain became convinced that a prostitute named M.J. had stolen crack, a pistol, a cell phone, and car keys from him when she came to his trailer to perform sexual services. He also believed that M.J. then urged her friends to rob him at gunpoint, stealing approximately $8,000 from him. MeClain's friend and co-defendant, Annie Shinault, picked up M.J. off the streets a few days later and…