Rogers v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “Regardless of the propriety of the sentence imposed [by the 1978 Knox County sentencing court], neither the Department of the Attorney General nor the Maine State Prison Classification officer had authority to modify or countermand the judgment of the sentencing justice that the term of the sentence for the kidnapping conviction run concurrently with that for the armed robbery and armed assault and battery. Any such power resides in the judicial department. Me.Const, art. Ill; See Ex Parte Davis, 41 Me. 38, 53 (1856); Brooks v. Rhay, 92 Wash.2d 876 , 602 P.2d 356 (1979). Rogers’ sentence as calculated by the Classification Officer is an unlawful modification of the concurrent sentence imposed by the court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rogers v. Sylvester

2. “Other provisions of this section notwithstanding, when a person subject to an undischarged term of imprisonment is convicted of a violation of chapter 31, section 755 [escape], or of a crime against the person of a member of the staff of the institution in which he was imprisoned, or of an attempt to commit either of such crimes, the sentence shall run consecutively to the undischarged term of imprisonment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rogers v. Sylvester