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SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
97-KK-1906

STATE OF LOUISIANA Versus WALTER JOHNSON ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH CIRCUIT, PARISH OF ORLEANS

VICTORY, Justice* We granted writs of certiorari in this case1 to reexamine the issue of when State v. Dorthey, 623 So.2d 1276 (La. 1993), permits a downward departure from the mandatory minimum sentences in LSA-R.S. 15.529.1, the Habitual Offender Law. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY 2 On Christmas Day in 1994, New Orleans Police officers Gillard and Rousseve were searching for a wanted subject at a business on North Broad Street. After getting consent to search the back rooms of the business, Officer Rousseve entered one of the rooms. When he entered, he saw Walter Johnson lighting a crack pipe. A search
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Calogero, C.J., not on panel. Rule IV, Part 2,

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