Court Opinion

ID: 9769741
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 15:01:14.033472+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:07.568126
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PARRISH, Presiding Judge,
concurring.
I concur. I write separately to emphasize that neither the state nor a defendant in a criminal case has a right to require a circuit court to grant probation or to consider granting probation within 120 days following delivery of a defendant to the custody of the department of corrections. Section 559.115.2, RSMo 1994, plainly states that a circuit court has the power to grant probation within 120 days following delivery of a defendant to the department of corrections “only upon its own motion and not that of the state or the defendant.” Whether a circuit court will grant or consider granting probation within that time is not subject to being bargained between the state and a defendant.
This movant’s Rule 24.035 motion was reversed and remanded previously in order for the trial court to conduct an evidentiary hearing to determine movant’s claim that his trial counsel misrepresented that he would receive probation within 120 days following his delivery to the department of corrections in that such a determination could impact upon the voluntariness of the plea of guilty. See Bauer v. State, 926 S.W.2d 188, 191 *251(Mo.App.1996). Nothing more should be read into the facts in this case.