When a jury found Cornell Hood II guilty on a fourth marijuana charge in 2011, a St. Tammany Parish judge initially sentenced him to life in prison. Mr. Hood's lawyer argued that the sentence under Louisiana's habitual offender act was...
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When a jury found Cornell Hood II guilty on a fourth marijuana charge in 2011, a St. Tammany Parish judge initially sentenced him to life in prison. Mr. Hood's lawyer argued that the sentence under Louisiana's habitual offender act was...