In Re Bentley

This is an appeal from a June 17, 1983, order of the Bennington Superior Court denying defendant’s petition, pursuant to 13 V.S.A. § 7131, for post-conviction relief. Defendant sought relief from convictions and sentences resulting from pleas of nolo contendere to the offenses of sexual assault upon a person under the age of sixteen, 13 V.S.A. § 3252(3), and committing a lewd and lascivious act with a child, 13 V.S.A. § 2602. The pleas were the result of a plea bargain agreement, and defendant was sentenced to concurrent terms of two to four years imprisonment.

Originally, defendant pleaded…