State of Louisiana v. Andrew Joseph Fusilier

Opinion

NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION

STATE OF LOUISIANA

COURT OF APPEAL, THIRD CIRCUIT

13-141

(Consolidated with Nos. 13-139 and 13-140)

STATE OF LOUISIANA

VERSUS

ANDREW JOSEPH FUSILIER

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APPEAL FROM THE

FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF CALCASIEU, NO. 18816-11 HONORABLE G. MICHAEL CANADAY, DISTRICT JUDGE

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ULYSSES GENE THIBODEAUX

CHIEF JUDGE

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Court composed of Ulysses Gene Thibodeaux, Chief Judge, Elizabeth A. Pickett, and Shannon J. Gremillion, Judges.

AFFIRMED.

John Foster DeRosier District Attorney – 14th Judicial District Court Carla Sue Sigler Assistant District Attorney – 14th Judicial District Court Karen C. McLellan Assistant District Attorney – 14th Judicial District Court P. O. Box 3206 Lake Charles, LA 70602-3206 Telephone: (337) 437-3400 COUNSEL FOR:

Plaintiff/Appellee - State of Louisiana

Edward Kelly Bauman Louisiana Appellate Project P. O. Box 1641 Lake Charles, LA 70602-1641 Telephone: (337) 491-0570 COUNSEL FOR:

Defendant/Appellant - Andrew Joseph Fusilier

THIBODEAUX, Chief Judge.

Defendant, Andrew Joseph Fusilier, entered an Alford plea to simple

rape, and received a sentence of twenty years at hard labor without the benefit of

probation, parole, or suspension of sentence, and to run consecutively with a

twenty-year sentence at hard labor for indecent behavior of a juvenile, and a ten-

year sentence at hard labor for computer-aided solicitation of a minor.

For the reasons articulated in State v. Fusilier, 13-139 (La.App. 3 Cir.

__/__/13), __ So.3d __, Defendant’s conviction and sentence are affirmed.

AFFIRMED.

THIS OPINION IS NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION. RULE 2-16.3, UNIFORM RULES—COURTS OF APPEAL.