James W. Price v. J. Wayne Allgood, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary

Petitioner, James W. Price, is presently incarcerated in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, having been found guilty by a jury of armed robbery in violation of L.R.S. § 14:64 1 and having subsequently pled guilty under the Louisiana multiple offender statute, L.R.S. § 15:529.1. 2 The maximum sentence for armed robbery is thirty years, while the multiple offender statute allows imposition of sentence twice that possible on a first offense. Petitioner’s sentence was set at fifty years.

This appeal is from a denial of petitioner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus 3 following a full…