Title: GARY HADDOCK v. THE STATE OF WYOMING

State: wyoming

Issuer: Wyoming Supreme Court

Document:

GARY HADDOCK v. THE STATE OF WYOMING1989 WY 166776 P.2d 1020Case Number: 89-153Decided: 08/01/1989Supreme Court of Wyoming

GARY HADDOCK, APPELLANT 
(DEFENDANT),

v.

THE STATE OF WYOMING, APPELLEE 
(PLAINTIFF).

Gary Haddock, pro se.

Joseph B. Meyer, 
Atty. Gen., John W. Renneisen, Deputy Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before CARDINE, C.J., and THOMAS, URBIGKIT, MACY 
and GOLDEN, JJ.

PER 
CURIAM.

[¶1.]     We review an order of 
the district court denying appellant's motion for reduction of sentence. We 
affirm.

[¶2.]     Appellant Gary Haddock 
pleaded guilty to several charges as a part of a plea agreement. Judgment and 
sentence was entered on August 9, 1988; no appeal was taken from that judgment. 
Appellant filed a motion for reduction of sentence on October 21, 1988, and the 
motion was denied. A second motion for reduction of sentence was filed on May 
19, 1989, and it, too, was denied by the district court. Appellant timely filed 
a notice of appeal seeking review of the later denial of his motion for 
reduction of sentence. Appellant is proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in 
this court.

[¶3.]     Our precedents are 
well-established that motions for reduction of sentence are addressed to the 
sound discretion of the trial court and the trial court's decision is accorded 
considerable deference here. Peper v. State, 776 P.2d 761 (Wyo. 1989). We proceed 
without benefit of briefing by the parties because the record on appeal clearly 
demonstrates an absence of any issue which requires additional briefing beyond 
that already done in the district court. As was the case in Peper, there is 
nothing in this record to suggest that the district court could not reasonably 
conclude as it did or that there was an error of law committed under the 
circumstances.

[¶4.]     Therefore, the order of 
the district court denying Haddock's motion for reduction of sentence is 
affirmed.