Royals v. State

Branch, Judge.

Teresa Louise Royals pled guilty to a single count of possession of methamphetamine and was sentenced to twenty-five years, with the first ten years to be served in incarceration and the balance to be served on probation. The court suspended Royals’s prison sentence, however, on the condition that she enter and complete a residential substance abuse treatment program. After her suspended sentence was revoked, Royals filed a pro se motion seeking a reduction or modification of her sentence and asserting that the sentence imposed by the trial court was void. Although Royals…