Three-time felon receives life sentence
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CONVENT — A state District Court judge sentenced a St. Charles Parish man to life in prison after the defendant was convicted in March of the armed robbery of a Vacherie bank, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors filed an habitual offender bill May 11 against David Dee, 36, 325 Ash St., Hahnville, and Judge Thomas Kliebert Jr. found he was a three-time felon, prosecutors with the 23rd Judicial District said Wednesday.
Under the habitual offender law, a defendant with three violent felony convictions shall be sentenced to life in prison. An armed robbery convictions normally can bring prison sentences of 10 to 99 years.
Assistant District Attorney Chuck Long, who prosecuted the case with Assistant District Attorney Craig Stewart, said Wednesday Dee had two previous kidnapping convictions.
On March 5, 2009, a 12-member jury found Dee guilty of armed robbery 21 months earlier at a Regions Bank branch in Vacherie, prosecutors said.
Dee entered the bank on June 5, 2007, with a gun and demanded money from a teller, prosecutors have said. Dee got cash and fled on foot, but St. James Parish sheriff’s deputies arrested him the same day, prosecutors said.
Kliebert sentenced Dee Tuesday in his 23rd Judicial District courtroom in the St. James Parish Courthouse in Convent, prosecutors said. Dee does not have the benefit of probation, parole or suspension of sentence, prosecutors said.
The judicial district encompasses St. James, Ascension and Assumption parishes.
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