# State v. Ratcliff

> Louisiana Court of Appeal · June 20, 1990 · 564 So. 2d 778

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/7584314

## Case

- **Full name:** STATE of Louisiana v. Steve RATCLIFF
- **Court:** Louisiana Court of Appeal
- **Decided:** June 20, 1990
- **Citations:** 564 So. 2d 778; 1990 La. App. LEXIS 1607; 1990 WL 84451
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court
- **Judges:** Hightower, Jones, Norris
- **Cited by:** 2 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

PER CURIAM.
Defendant, charged with one count of forgery' and one count of issuing worthless checks totaling $1,037.27, pled guilty to the latter charge. Pursuant to a plea bargain, the state dismissed the forgery count and agreed to a sentence of no more than five years.
The trial court imposed a sentence of five years at hard labor, suspended execution, and placed defendant on supervised probation for five years subject to conditions including restitution and successful completion of a drug treatment program.
Defendant now appeals the sentence as being excessive.
When a court imposes a sentence within the limits to which the defendant has agreed in accepting a plea bargain, he cannot complain of excessiveness. State v. Bell, 412 So.2d 1335 (La.1982); State v. Lewis, 564 So.2d 739 (La.App. 2d Cir.1990); State v. Wilson, 438 So.2d 635 (La.App. 2d Cir.1983); State v. Brown, 427 So.2d 1284 (La.App. 2d Cir.1983).
CONVICTION AND SENTENCE AFFIRMED.

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