State v. Farrow

The defendant, Gary Farrow, is serving a life sentence without possibility of parole following his conviction for first degree murder in 1976. See State v. Farrow, 118 N.H. 296, 299, 386 A.2d 808, 810 (1978); RSA 630:1-a, III (Supp. 1977). This appeal arises from the Superior Court’s (Smukler, J.) dismissal of a petition to suspend the defendant’s sentence. We affirm.

The defendant argues that, based upon statutory rules of construction, the trial court erred as a matter of law in ruling that the 1992 amendment to RSA 651:20,1(a) (Supp. 1993) (effective January 1, 1993) (amended Laws 1994,…