State v. Red Kettle

[¶1.] Twenty-eight years ago, this Court reversed a defendant's sentence and remanded the case for resentencing consistent with the Court's decision. For reasons not disclosed in this record, the defendant did not get resentenced until 2017. In a pro-se motion made before the 2017 sentence-correction hearing, the defendant requested court-appointed counsel and argued for his release because the State failed to timely proceed after remand. The circuit court did not address these additional requests; instead, it proceeded to resentence the defendant as directed in this Court's 1990 decision.…