Parent v. McClennen

OPINION

FOREMAN, Judge.

¶ 1 Joseph Roeco Parent, Jr., seeks special action relief from a ruling by one judge of the superior court that his sentence for criminal damage, a class six felony, could be enhanced by two prior felony convictions. The motion to allege the prior convictions was filed by the State after another judge had accepted Parent’s plea to the charge.

¶ 2 We previously issued an order accepting jurisdiction and granting relief, with this opinion to follow. Because it was error for the trial court to grant the State’s motion to allege the priors to enhance Parent’s sentence after…