Dentler v. State

OPINION

COATS, Judge.

On October 4, 1982, Robert Dentler was convicted upon his no contest plea of selling subsistence-caught salmon roe. When imposing sentence Judge Gerald Van Hoomis-sen stated:

So it’ll be the judgment of the court that you be committed... for a period of five days — 10 days and that you pay a fine of $1,000.00; that you be placed on probation for a period of two years.

After a short discussion about when it would be convenient for Dentler to report to the correctional institution, Dentler’s counsel Geoffry Wildridge asked Judge Van Hoomissen: “Did Your Honor suspend…