Legal Opinion
Ranta v. State
Montana Supreme Court
Decided April 30, 1998No. 97-216PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hunt
¶1 This case comes to the Court on petitioner Geramy Ranta’s petition for post-conviction relief. Ranta challenges the decisions and judgments of the Sentence Review Division of the Montana Supreme Court affirming and increasing his sentences in cause numbers DC 94-639, DC 94-543, and DC 95-278 as unconstitutional on the grounds that the State failed to appoint counsel to represent him in his sentence review. Ranta requests that his original sentences be reinstated. We grant Ranta the relief he requests, but we do so in the context of an extraordinary writ as opposed to granting…
2Cases cited23 opinions
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- Evitts v. LuceySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Townsend v. BurkeSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
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