State v. Trieb

Reginald Trieb agreed to serve twenty-two years in the North Dakota State Penitentiary, twenty-one years without any reduction for good-time credit. I would affirm the amended judgment and sentence because Trieb specifically waived his right to receive good-time credit on the first twenty-one years of his sentence, and because he has no standing to raise any right or interest of prison administrators.

As part of a plea bargain, Trieb pled guilty to murder for the 1979 brutal killing of seventeen-year-old Val Scott Blade. Trieb murdered Blade by striking him several times in the head with a…