By JIM BUTLER

Tayshaun Spearman is bound over for a seven-year prison sentence on a marijuana-dealing conviction. From his perspective it could be worse.

Spearman, 20, of Alexandria was tried, convicted and sentenced this week in Ninth Judicial Distict Court on the charge from last August, the most recent of his arrests, which also included allegations of contraband in a penal facility and criminal conspiracy.

Six months earlier he was charged with second-degree murder, assault by drive-by and aggravated criminal damage in an incident on Victoria Drive.

Actually Spearman, on bond at the time, was not supposed to be in the parish. Then living in Dallas, he was ordered in October 2023 to stay away unless required here for court appearance.

That circumstance was in connection with his August 2023 booking on a second-degree murder charge and two counts of armed robbery stemming from a sidewalk argument.