Legal Opinion

State v. Collind

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided January 23, 1992Published

1Opinion of the Court

GLASSMAN, Justice.

Bruce Collind appeals from a judgment entered after a hearing before the Superior Court (York County, Lipez, J.) denying Col-lind’s timely motion, pursuant to M.R.Crim.P. 35(c), for a reduction of his sentence. After execution of his sentence was commenced, Collind discovered that he was HIV positive and that this condition reasonably could be expected to drastically reduce his life expectancy. He contends that the sentence was based on the incorrect assumption that Collind had a normal life expectancy and that the denial of his motion was an abuse of discretion. We affirm…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. State v. EmerySupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1987
  2. State v. FrostSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1990

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