State ex rel. Pindexter

SHORTESS, Judge.

Carlton Pindexter was adjudicated delinquent as a multiple misdemeanor theft offender (La.R.S. 14:67) on October 19, 1981. He was thereafter committed to the Department of Corrections for a period not to exceed two years.

At the adjudicatory hearing on Petition No. 64,850, the State offered evidence of two prior misdemeanor thefts: Petition No. 53,441 dated January 12, 1981, and Petition No. 53,761 dated May 11, 1981. Defense counsel objected to the use of the judgment in Petition No. 53,441 on the grounds that it resulted from an uncounseled admission of guilt. The trial court…