Title: State v. Parker

State: vermont

Issuer: Vermont Supreme Court

Document:

ENTRY ORDER

                      SUPREME COURT DOCKET NO. 89-011

                            OCTOBER TERM, 1990


State of Vermont                  }          APPEALED FROM:
                                  }
                                  }
     v.                           }          District Court of Vermont,
                                  }          Unit No. 1, Rutland Circuit
                                  }
Fred C. Parker, Jr.               }
                                  }          DOCKET NO. 1295-9-87RCr


             In the above entitled cause the Clerk will enter:


     Defendant pled no contest to charges of burglary, retail theft, and
petit larceny, and was sentenced to an aggregate term of one-to-six-years
imprisonment.  Defendant now appeals from the judgment of conviction, asking
this Court to strike a condition of the plea agreement limiting his right to
move for reconsideration of his sentence.   Defendant signed a plea agree-
ment which included the following provision:

          5)  DEFENDANT hereby understands and waives his right
          under 13 V.S.A. { 7042 to request the Court for recon-
          sideration of the sentences(s) imposed under this
          agreement, except to the extent that the penalty imposed
          is greater than that recommended by the state herein.

Defendant asserts that since the right to move for reconsideration of
sentence is "conferred absolutely" by statute, any waiver of this right as a
condition of a plea agreement is per se invalid.  Defendant argues that his
situation is directly analogous to State v. Buck, 139 Vt. 310,