Legal Opinion

State v. Volner

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided July 25, 1978No. 39156PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CLEMENS, Presiding Judge.

Defendant Danny Volner, charged with second degree burglary as a prior felon,1 *782was found guilty by a jury and sentenced by the court to ten years’ imprisonment. Defendant appeals, conceding his guilt, but contending the court erred in assessing the ten-year penalty “because the court would have honored the plea bargain in which the prosecution recommended five and one-half years” and the sentence imposed “is in effect a punishment for his exercise of his constitutional right to a trial . . . .” The assertion as to what sentence the court would have imposed on a plea…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Bordenkircher v. HayesSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
  2. Eddie W. Patton v. State of North CarolinaCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1967
  3. United States v. Leroy WileyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1959
  4. State v. McRaeMissouri Court of Appeals · 1975

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. State v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Missouri · 1980
  2. State v. CampbellMissouri Court of Appeals · 1980
  3. State v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Missouri · 1980

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