Legal Opinion

State v. Fry

Montana Supreme Court

Decided March 25, 1982No. 81-399PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shea

The defendant appeals from an order of the Missoula County District Court revoking a ten year suspended sentence and ordering him to prison. At the hearing in which the ten year suspended sentence was imposed, the defendant neither had a lawyer nor waived his right to a lawyer. We therefore vacate the order imposing the ten year suspended sentence, and we order the defendant be released from custody and from any restraints imposed as a a result of his guilty plea and the subsequent judgment imposed on April 7, 1975.

This situation arises after the defendant was first given a three year…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Brady v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  2. McMann v. RichardsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  3. Tollett v. HendersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  4. Parker v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  5. State v. TurcotteMontana Supreme Court · 1974

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Swearingen v. StateMontana Supreme Court · 2001
  2. State v. LangeMontana Supreme Court · 1987
  3. Peckenpaugh v. PeckenpaughMontana Supreme Court · 1982
  4. State v. LambertMontana Supreme Court · 2025

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