Court Opinion

ID: 9685730
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 14:58:53.376657+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:09.793542
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HENDERSON, Justice
(concurring).
Again, this Court is confronted with an interaction between oral pronouncement of sentence and the written judgment of conviction. In discussing this interaction, I wish to express, initially, that this is a plea bargain case. Secondly, I refer SDCL 23A-7-9 to the attention of the Bar and Bench. It provides:
... Thereupon the court may accept or reject the agreement, or may defer its decision as to the acceptance or rejection until there has been an opportunity to consider the presentence report....
Here, the plea agreement was not rejected by the trial court nor did it defer its decision until a presentence report was considered. The plea agreement in question was accepted by the trial court but, most importantly, Munk acknowledged and agreed to it. Thirdly, a formal dismissal was filed by the prosecuting attorney setting forth that the State was dismissing five no-account cheek charges for the reason that Munk (a) pleaded guilty to Count I and (b) had been ordered to pay restitution and (c) Munk was sentenced on Count I.
Munk cannot have his cake and eat it too. He has plea bargained out of five no-account check charges in consideration of pleading guilty to Count I and paying “full restitution for not just this check and other checks listed on the Information, but all checks written on this bank account.” Therefore, the trial court, having accepted this plea agreement, honored it by ordering that the Victim's Assistance Office determined a restitution schedule.
In State v. Wolff, 438 N.W.2d 199 (1989), this Court detailed at great length upon the law of restitution, not only in the State of South Dakota, but in the nation. We spelled out the due process rights and stat*126utory protections afforded to defendants. I note that Munk was remanded to the custody of the Pennington County Sheriff for delivery to the Warden of the South Dakota State Penitentiary. Pursuant to our decision in Wolff, the circuit court had jurisdiction to formulate a plan of restitution.” SDCL 23A-27-32. I note that the trial court prescribed that restitution was “... to be paid on a schedule prescribed by his Parole Officer.” We expressed in Wolff at 203: “In conclusion, trial courts may prepare plans of restitution when defendants are under its jurisdiction. However, once the defendant enters the penitentiary, the Board of Pardons and Parole may prepare its own plan of restitution.”