Christakis v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “The clear intention of the legislature is to give the trial court an opportunity to sentence a defendant but keep reserved in his judgment an opportunity to review incarceration of the defendant up to 180 days within which time he may grant probation as though it were originally done at the time of sentencing. Prior to the enactment of this provision, a trial court had no authority over a defendant after he pronounced a sentence. The jurisdiction over the defendant then went to the Department of Correction. This statute gave the trial judge an additional 180 days to consider or reconsider the probation aspect of the sentencing.... We hold the grant of such power by the legislature is jurisdictional and that upon the expiration of the 180 days notwithstanding any peti tions filed by the defendant, the court loses further jurisdiction over the defendant so far as the alteration of his sentence is concerned.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Samuel W. Koonce v. Kim M. Finney