Legal Opinion

State v. Young

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided September 21, 2011No. 46,575-KAPublishedCited by 56 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtCaraway, J.

| Nicholas Loyd Young pled guilty to failure to register as a sex offender, second offense, in violation of La. R.S. 15:542.1.4. He was sentenced to 20 years’ hard labor without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence to run consecutively to any sentence he was serving. Young appeals the constitutional excessiveness of his sentence. We affirm.

Facts

On November 18, 2009, Nicholas Loyd Young was released from the Bayou Dor-cheat Correctional Center where he had been serving a three-year hard labor sentence for his second conviction of failure to register as a sex offender, first…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. State v. DortheySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1993
  2. State v. BonannoSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1980
  3. State v. LobatoSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1992
  4. State v. SmithSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2003
  5. State v. WeaverSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2002

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