State v. Parson

OPINION

The defendant, Treze D. Parson, appeals from a Superior Court judgment denying his motion to correct an illegal sentence. The defendant argues that G.L.1956 § 12-19-9 prohibits a sentencing justice from executing the previously suspended sentence of a probation violator beyond the end of the originally imposed term of probation. He asserts, therefore, that the violation hearing justice lacked authority to order him to serve the entire ten years of his suspended sentence when less than two years remained on his ten-year period of probation. This case came before the Supreme Court for…