Opinion ID: 2570492
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Heading: Second Motion to Modify

Text: Defendant then filed a second motion to modify. Hearing was held on the motion on January 16, 1987. Defense counsel argued that defendant was offered a plea agreement that was not followed by the court when sentence was imposed and that if the court was not going to follow the agreement, the plea should have been renegotiated. The State argued that the sentence was appropriate given the SRDC report. At this juncture, defense counsel indicated he believed the State was violating its plea agreement by not arguing for modification of the sentence to the agreed-on recommended sentence. In denying the motion, Judge Anderson stated: Well, I am not going to make lengthy comments. I did at the time this matter was passed on for sentencing purposes and the motion to modify that sentence, and I will reaffirm the same thinking, rationale and conclusions the Court drew at those times....