State v. Arrocha

Hill, J.;

This appeal presents the question of whether a district court can legally add, by journal entiy, a postrelease supervision term to a criminal sentence already pronounced from the bench. The law directs the sentencing court to pronounce the complete sentence at the sentencing hearing where the defendant is present. Criminal sentences have two parts, a period of confinement and a period of postrelease supervision. Because the court here did not pronounce the complete sentence at the sentencing hearing by failing to include the term of postrelease supervision, we vacate the sentence and…