Dowling v. State

Ruffin, Chief Judge.

In 1994, David Allan Dowling pleaded guilty to four counts of aggravated child molestation, six counts of child molestation, two counts of rape, and one count of aggravated sodomy. Over eleven years later, he moved to vacate his convictions and sentences, asserting that the trial court improperly sentenced him to three consecutive twenty-year terms. According to Dowling, the court should have imposed one twenty-year sentence. The trial court denied the motion, and Dowling appeals. Finding no error, we affirm.

A trial court generally lacks jurisdiction to modify a sentence…