Legal Opinion

Chester Loyde Bird v. State

Wyoming Supreme Court

Decided August 17, 2015No. S-15-0059PublishedCited by 17 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BURKE, Chief Justice.

[¶1] Appellant, Chester Loyde Bird, pled guilty to kidnapping and first-degree sexual assault in 1994 while he was on parole for an unrelated erime, and he was sentenced to two concurrent life terms. In this appeal, Appellant, acting pro se, challenges the district court's denial of his motion to correct an illegal sentence under W.R.Cr.P. 85(a). We affirm,

ISSUES

[¶2] Appellant presents six issues, which we combine and restate as follows:

1. Whether Appellant's sentence is illegal | due to the sentencing court's failure to state whether the sentence was to run concurrently…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Hamill v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 1997
  2. Bitz v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 2003
  3. Manes v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 2007
  4. Busch v. HORTON AUTOMATICS, INC.Wyoming Supreme Court · 2008
  5. ENDRIS v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 2010

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3Cited by17 opinions

  1. Davis v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 2018
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  3. Goetzel v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 2019
  4. Kenneth Dale Nicodemus v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 2017
  5. Palomo v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 2018

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