Case ID: so2d_963/html/0382-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. Cecil C. JONES.
    No. 2006-K-2905.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Aug. 31, 2007.
   PER CURIAM.

Granted in part. Defendant’s sentence is amended to delete the denial of diminution of sentence for good behavior under La.R.S. 15:571.3(C). See State v. Narcisse, 97-3161, p. 1 (La.6/26/98), 714 So.2d 698, 699 (Department of Corrections lacks authority to deny diminution of sentence for good behavior on a sentence imposed for a crime enumerated in La. R.S. 15:571.3(0(1), “in a case in which the trial court has not formally adjudicated and sentenced the defendant as a multiple offender under the provisions of La.R.S. 15:529.1.”); see La.R.S. 15:571.3(0(2) and (3). In all other respects, the application is denied.