Case Name: STATE ex rel. Elwin SENNETTE v. Jack F. DONNELLY, Warden, Washington Correctional Inst.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1988-03-18
Citations: 521 So. 2d 1139
Docket Number: No. 87-KH-1144
Parties: STATE ex rel. Elwin SENNETTE v. Jack F. DONNELLY, Warden, Washington Correctional Inst.
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 521
Pages: 1139–1139

Head Matter:
STATE ex rel. Elwin SENNETTE v. Jack F. DONNELLY, Warden, Washington Correctional Inst.
No. 87-KH-1144.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
March 18, 1988.

Opinion:
In re Sennette, Elwin; applying for writ of certiorari and/or review; Parish of Orleans, Criminal District Court, Div. "H", No. 299-763; to the Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit, No. K-6801.
Granted. The seven and one-half year multiple offender sentence imposed is vacated and set aside, and the district court is ordered to impose a multiple offender sentence not to exceed the six-year sentence initially imposed after relator's first multiple offender adjudication. See North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711, 89 S.Ct. 2072, 23 L.Ed.2d 656 (1969).