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STATE ex rel. Jimmie Ray BERRY v. STATE of Louisiana.
    No. 96-KH-0367.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    May 16, 1997.
   In re Berry, Jimmie Ray; — Plaintiff(s); applying for supervisory and/or remedial writs; Parish of Bossier, 26th Judicial District Court, Div. “D”, No. 28, 627; to the Court of Appeal, Second Circuit, No. 28527-KW.

Writ granted; case remanded for resen-tencing. The district judge erred in imposing two sentences enhanced under R.S. 15:529.1 when the two convictions arose from a single criminal episode and were entered on the same day. See State ex rel. Porter v. Butler, 573 So.2d 1106, 1109 (La.1991); State v. Sherer, 411 So.2d 1050, 1057 (La.1982).

VICTORY, TRAYLOR and KNOLL, JJ., would grant and docket to reconsider State ex rel. Porter v. Butler.

CALOGERO, C.J., not on panel.