Opinion ID: 2514968
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 13

Heading: The Evidence at Issue

Text: There are three pieces of evidence that bear on the sentence date of Heggland's Colorado conviction: (1) the document entitled Integrated Colorado Online Network (ICON), included as Exhibit 2 to the prosecution's sentencing motion [hereinafter ICON document]; (2) the testimony of parole officer Reginald Une; and (3) the presentence diagnosis and report [hereinafter presentence report] filed in the circuit court on January 17, 2006. The primary documentary evidence of the date of Heggland's Colorado conviction is the ICON document, which includes a line stating Sentence Date ... SCRT 11/14/1997, and is scattered with at least three other references to that date. [13] The document was introduced into evidence by the prosecution, but was questioned by Heggland's counsel and by the court, and the matter was left unresolved before parole officer Une was called to testify. [14] Heggland did not specifically challenge any of the information contained in the ICON document. Une, in his testimony, focused on what he called the controlling discharge date, referring to the end of Heggland's period of mandatory parole in November 2004. However, he was also asked about the date of Heggland's Colorado conviction. First, in response to the prosecution's question, What was the date of conviction on the aggravated conspiracy to commit robbery?, Une replied November 14, 1997. Heggland's counsel objected and on cross-examination asked Une the basis of this information. Une replied that it was based on the documentation that the State of Colorado sent us ... a thing called the interstate compact packet that they sent to us. [15] Une testified that he did not receive from Colorado a copy or certified copy of the judgment for the prior case, and responded negatively when asked whether he was familiar with the sentencing laws of the state of Colorado. Lastly, the presentence report [16] contains the following information regarding Heggland's Colorado conviction: [Heggland] said he was sentenced in 1997 for the Arizona case first. (It is not known if he was sentenced as an adult.) He was then extradited to Colorado and arrested on November 5, 1997. On November 14, 1997, he was sentenced to five years [sic] prison for Conspiracy to Commit Aggravated Robbery (Count III), concurrent with his Arizona sentence, with credit for 323 days time served. The remaining Counts were dismissed. He noted that he got a stiffer sentence than his codefendants as he was the one who possessed the handgun. After sentencing in Colorado, he said he was returned to Arizona to serve his prison term. Due to misconducts [sic], he ended up serving a longer sentence, four years nine months. The presentence report stated that Heggland's record in Colorado was contained in the NCIC (National Crime Information Center) database, and it includes the ICON document as an attachment. References to the presentence report were made at the January 17, 2006 sentencing hearing by the court and counsel, but Heggland did not raise any challenge to the sentence date contained in the presentence report. [17]