A Baton Rouge drug dealer was sentenced to 30 years in prison Tuesday, months after he admitted to selling a woman a batch of fentanyl-laced pills the day she died.
Malcolm Hall III, 31, pleaded guilty to manslaughter during a Nov. 24 hearing inside the 19th Judicial District Courthouse. District Judge Brad Myers imposed the 30-year sentence during a hearing on Tuesday inside his courtroom, court records show.
Hall was initially indicted for second-degree murder and pleaded guilty to the lesser charge to avoid the prospect of a mandatory life sentence. Court records show prosecutors dismissed an obstruction of justice indictment in exchange for Hall’s manslaughter plea…