Case Name: STATE ex rel. Sidney BIENEMY v. John P. WHITLEY, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1992-10-09
Citations: 605 So. 2d 1112
Docket Number: No. 91-KH-1870
Parties: STATE ex rel. Sidney BIENEMY v. John P. WHITLEY, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary.
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 605
Pages: 1112–1113

Head Matter:
STATE ex rel. Sidney BIENEMY v. John P. WHITLEY, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary.
No. 91-KH-1870.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
Oct. 9, 1992.
Reconsideration Denied Nov. 5, 1992.

Opinion:
In re Bienemy, Sidney; — Plamtiff(s); applying for supervisory and/or remedial writs; Parish of Orleans, Criminal District Court, Div. "G", No. 252-712.
Denied. The sentence imposed in 1975 represented the mandatory minimum term of years for a multiple offender convicted of armed robbery and sentenced under La. R.S. 15:529.1. The district court has no discretion to impose a lesser term of years and the court's correction of its sentence to reflect the requirement of law that the penalty run without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence does not give rise to a presumption of vindictiveness under North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711, 89 S.Ct. 2072, 23 L.Ed.2d 656 (1969). Relator's corrected sentence rests on an " 'on-the-record, wholly logical, non-vindictive reason_'" State v. Lucas, 598 So.2d 338 (La.1992) [quoting Texas v. McCullough, 475 U.S. 134, 140, 106 S.Ct. 976, 980, 89 L.Ed.2d 104 (1986)].