State v. Curtis Isom

OPINION

Justice FLAHERTY, for the Court.

The defendant, Curtis Isom, appeals from an order of a Superior Court magistrate that denied his motion to vacate what he argued was an illegal sentence that was imposed after he admitted to violating the terms and conditions of his probation. On appeal, the defendant argues that: (1) the magistrate who revoked five years of his suspended sentence exceeded her authority in doing so; (2) the trial justice who subsequently heard the defendant’s motion to vacate that sentence erred when he declined to address the motion and instead returned it to the…