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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Crichton finds that Article 930.10 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which allows the judicial branch to exercise the governor's power to pardon a final conviction, is unconstitutional. The statute permits a court to create a “post conviction plea agreement” for the purpose of “amending the petitioner’s conviction,” by overturning a defendant's final conviction, and then, accepting their guilty plea and imposing the agreed upon sentence. Article 930.10 allows a court to overturn a final conviction solely because a defendant and the district attorney jointly requested the court to do so, and this violates the doctrine of separation of powers. In this case, the district court should not have denied the Attorney General’s motion to vacate defendant's post-conviction plea agreement as unconstitutional. Further, the district court's decision overturning defendant’s second degree murder conviction is vacated. Reversed.