Legal Opinion · Dissent

State v. Wagner

Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Decided February 19, 2002No. COA01-144Published

1DissentWynn, Judge

It is undisputed that defendant’s initial sentence and guilty plea were vacated as a result of the trial court improperly assigning defendant a prior record level of VI instead of his actual prior record level of V. Defendant thus received “the minimum mitigated sentence of 101 months for his criminal history” of Level VI, when defendant’s actual prior record level of V would translate to a minimum mitigated sentence of 90 months. Because defendant challenged this inaccu*666racy, he ended up being sentenced to two consecutive terms of 135 to 171 months, when the State, in defendant’s second…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. North Carolina v. PearceSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  2. Blackledge v. PerrySupreme Court of the United States · 1974
  3. State v. NixonCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 1995
  4. State v. HarrisCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 1994

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