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Notable Montana Supreme Court ruling on sentencing rights and procedure

By Douglas A. Berman

As reporting in this effective local article, earlier this week the Montana Supreme Court "affirmed a one-year jail sentence for former Great Falls Mayor Gayle Morris for his role in the prostitution investigators said occurred at a bar and strip club west of Great Falls."  Though the nature of the crime first caught my attention, the issues addressed by the Montana Supreme Court in this opinion provides an effective primer on various sentencing rights (and their limits).  Here is a brief accounting of the case and the ruling from the press article: In June, Morris, who is a proprietor of the club, was sentenced to a year in jail after pleading no contest to accountability to prostitution and obstructing a peace officer.  He is serving his sentence at the Cascade County jail...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 16, 2010 (boomark / email).