Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-10-24 00:06:53.673607+00
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STATE       OF    LOUISIANA                                                                    NO.     2023    KW    0895

VERSUS

MARCEL       DEWAYNE           THOMPSON                                                      OCTOBER     23,        2023

In    Re:          Marcel            Dewayne              Thompson,           applying   for   supervisory
                   writs,            22nd       Judicial             District     Court,   Parish  of  St.

                   Tammany,           No.    558732.

BEFORE:            WELCH,           HOLDRIDGE,            AND      WOLFE,       JJ.

        WRIT        DENIED.               The         record         shows       that         in     exchange        for     a

forty -year          sentence             on a       double         bill, relator voluntarily waived
his    right        to     a    habitual             offender         hearing and stipulated to the
allegations              contained                   in      the        habitual              offender         bill         of

information.                   As    a    result,            relator        waived           appellate        review        of

the    sentence,           his        status          as     a     habitual       offender,            and     any    claim

that        the    State        failed          to     prove        the     applicable              cleansing        period

did    not        lapse.            See   La.        R. S.       15: 529. 1 ( D) (    1) (   b) ;    State     v.    White,

2021- 0202 (         La.        App.        lst      Cir.         10/ 4/ 21),         330     So. 3d    663,        666- 67.
Therefore,           the       district           court          did    not     err    by denying            the     motion

to    correct       an     illegal          habitual             offender        sentence.