Matthews v. State

In 1990, the appellant, Casey Matthews, pleaded guilty to one count of burglary and one count of theft of property. He was sentenced to twenty years with thirteen years suspended on the burglary charge, and ten years with ten years suspended on the theft of property charge. The court ran the sentences concurrently. In 1995, he was charged with aggravated assault after he allegedly threatened his girlfriend with a butcher knife. The filing of the aggravated assault charge caused the prosecutor to seek a revocation of the suspended sentence that Matthews received for the burglary conviction.…