Legal Opinion
State v. Thomas
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided November 16, 2016No. 2016-KA-0429PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE SANDRA CABRINA JENKINS
|!Wendell Thomas appeals his sentence as a fourth felony offender. For the following reasons, we vacate Mr. Thomas’s adjudication and sentence under the. multiple offender bill, re-impose the original sentence, and remand the case to the trial court for a new hearing on the multiple bill.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
On March 19, 2012, the appellant, Wendell Thomas, was convicted by an Orleans Parish jury of possession of heroin in violation of La. R.S. 40:966(C)(1), after which he was sentenced to serve five years at hard labor. This Court affirmed Mr. Thomas’s…
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