Interim DA Collin Sims reports that District Judge Alan Zaunbrecher sentenced 32 YO Joseph Peoples of Bogalusa to life in prison without parole after a jury found him guilty in January of the murder of Shawn Whiteside.
He was also sentenced on 2 counts of obstruction of justice and 2 counts of conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
The Judge ordered the sentences to run consecutive to the life in prison sentence, for a total of 120 years.
Peoples has three unrelated pending felony cases and several prior felony convictions. A
ssistant District Attorneys Jay Adair and Hank Meyer led the prosecution.
