Reiger v. State

ADKINS, Judge.

Appellant Peter H. Reiger challenges the legality of his 30 year sentence for second degree murder, raising a single issue on which this Court granted leave to appeal:

Whether the sentencing court, by considering the action the parole board might later take, relied on an impermissible criteria in setting the sentence?

We shall hold that Reiger waived his objection by failing to assert it at sentencing. In any event, we conclude there was no error, because a court may consider parole eligibility and good conduct credits in imposing sentence.

FACTS AND LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

Reiger was…