Spirited offender

LAKE CHARLES, La. — An appellate court in Louisiana affirmed the trial court’s conviction of a defendant for violating protective orders. He says it is unfair to sentence him to 24 years of consecutive sentences over his single act of a phone call, but he called his victim from jail in violation of three protective orders instructing him not to. He has been convicted of 18 felonies and has been given multiple “second chances.” He poses an “unusual and undue high risk” to the public, so the sentences were not excessive.