Case Name: STATE ex rel. Jimmie Ray BERRY v. STATE of Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1997-05-16
Citations: 693 So. 2d 787
Docket Number: No. 96-KH-0367
Parties: STATE ex rel. Jimmie Ray BERRY v. STATE of Louisiana.
Judges: VICTORY, TRAYLOR and KNOLL, JJ., would grant and docket to reconsider State ex rel. Porter v. Butler.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 693
Pages: 787–787

Head Matter:
STATE ex rel. Jimmie Ray BERRY v. STATE of Louisiana.
No. 96-KH-0367.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
May 16, 1997.

Opinion:
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.