The court affirmed Campbell’s manslaughter conviction and twenty-year sentence, concluding that the sentencing judge adequately explained the sentence and did not abuse his discretion.
Supreme Court of Louisiana, 1981
Published opinions from 1981. The case name opens the case page.
1981 opinions
The court set aside Jones’s sentence and remanded for another hearing because the near-maximum sentence was excessive on the record and the factual basis for denying probation was unclear.
The court affirmed the physician’s six convictions for unlawfully distributing phentermine by prescription. It held that expert testimony was not essential under these facts and that the undercover agents’ testimony and the circumstances of the prescriptions permitted a rational factfinder to find the required…