Case ID: so2d_444/html/1184-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LEMMON, Judge,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. Lee Ray SINEGAL.
    No. 83-K-2499.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Jan. 6, 1984.
   Granted. Sentence is vacated and case remanded for re-sentencing after a full hearing and affording defendant opportunity to contravene allegations in PSI report, all to be in compliance with C.Cr.P. Art. 894.1.

LEMMON, Judge,

concurs.

It is inappropriate for a probation officer to include in a presentence investigation report an unsupported statement that a police officer “considers Sinegal to be a ‘big man’ in the narcotics trade in Jennings”. It is even more inappropriate for the trial judge, in imposing sentence, to attach any significance whatsoever to such a statement. The sentencing judge should disregard this • and any other conclusory statements that are made without a factual basis.