Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Kelly B. COCKERHAM
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2018-06-15
Citations: 245 So. 3d 1035
Docket Number: No. 2017–KO–1802
Parties: STATE of Louisiana
v.
Kelly B. COCKERHAM
Judges: CRICHTON, J., would grant in part and assigns reasons.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 245
Pages: 1035–1036

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana
v.
Kelly B. COCKERHAM
No. 2017-KO-1802
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
June 15, 2018
ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT, PARISH OF WEST BATON ROUGE
Writ denied.
CRICHTON, J., would grant in part and assigns reasons.

Opinion:
GENOVESE, J., would grant for the reasons assigned by Judge Holdridge.
CRICHTON, J., would grant in part and assigns reasons:
As Judge Holdridge notes in his dissent below, without an amendment to the habitual offender bill of information by the district attorney, the district court was limited to sentencing the defendant as a third-felony offender. I agree and would therefore reverse the fourth-felony adjudication and remand to the district court for further proceedings.