9-21-2011 Louisiana:State v Young
Nicholas Loyd Young pled guilty to failure to register as a sex offender, second offense, in violation of La. R.S. 15:542.1.4. He was sentenced to 20 years' hard labor without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence to run consecutively to any sentence he was serving. Young appeals the constitutional excessiveness of his sentence. We affirm.
There is no doubt in this writer's mind that a 20 year prison sentence for this type of offense is excessive no matter what his other history is, and even for any number of failure to register convictions he has. Weems v US, but who am I, a lay person...
