Court Opinion

ID: 5076498
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-10-01 11:26:56.364059+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:20:02.407507
License: Public Domain

CRANDALL, Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the opinion of Karohl, J. and write only to express my disagreement with the dissenting opinion of Pudlowski, P.J.
There is substantial evidence in the record to conclude that defendant was put on probation after a conviction for the crime of robbery in the first degree. He was later rearrested for that same crime. The reason for his rearrest for that crime was a possible probation violation. The term “possible probation violation” is simply an explanation for his rearrest for the underlying crime.
A probation revocation hearing is civil in nature in that a defendant is not entitled to the full panoply of rights that he has in a criminal trial. In this case the defendant had previously pleaded guilty and been sentenced. The purpose of the probation revocation hearing was to decide whether that sentence should be executed. If the hearing had occurred and the sentence been ordered executed, it would have been for the conviction of the crime of robbery in the first degree. The reason for ordering the execution of the sentence would have been based on a finding that defendant had violated the terms of his probation.
I agree with the majority that the amended information in this case was legally insufficient to charge defendant with a crime. This despite the fact that the evidence made a submissible case of the crime of escape from confinement after arrest for any crime. Section 575.210.1, RSMo (1986). The State simply failed to charge a crime supported by the evidence.