Case Title: State v. Martinson

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State: vermont

Court: Vermont Supreme Court

Date: 1990-11-01T00:00:00Z

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ENTRY ORDER

                      SUPREME COURT DOCKET NO. 89-168

                            NOVEMBER TERM, 1990



State of Vermont                  }          APPEALED FROM:
                                  }
                                  }
     v.                           }          District Court of Vermont,
                                  }          Unit No. 2, Chittenden Circuit
                                  }
David Martinsen                   }
                                  }          DOCKET NO. 1647-4-88CnCr


             In the above entitled cause the Clerk will enter:


     The district court's order denying defendant's motion for sentence
reconsideration is affirmed.

     Defendant, under a plea agreement, pleaded guilty to a charge of
assault and robbery and of violating a condition of release.  Pursuant to
the agreement, he was sentenced to a term of one to six years for the
assault and robbery and a concurrent one year sentence for the release
condition violation.  Within ninety days of the sentencing, defendant filed
a motion for sentence reconsideration pursuant to 13 V.S.A. { 7042(a).  The
court held two hearings on defendant's motion at which defendant presented
information that the time he was serving was longer than that which was
anticipated at sentencing, although it was within the sentence imposed.  The
court denied the motion on the ground that the court was without power to
reconsider the sentence because defendant had only presented information
concerning developments occurring after sentencing.  Defendant then brought
this appeal claiming the trial court withheld its discretion by ruling that
it was without jurisdiction.

     Sentence reconsideration under { 7042(a) is not meant to supplant the
parole process.  State v. LaPine, 148 Vt. 14, 15,