State v. Bradford

Although Am. Sub. H. B. No. 300 provides that one serving a sentence shall be released if there is no substantially equivalent offense on the effective date specified in the act and any person serving a sentence of imprisonment for an offense that remains an offense after the effective date of the act but which would entail a lesser penalty shall have his existing sentence modified in conformity with the penalties provided by this act, it is clear that only vacation or modification of sentence is contemplated and that formal resentencing with the prisoner present is not contemplated or…