Daniels v. State

Phipps, Judge.

In April 1993, Charles Daniels was convicted of sale of cocaine and sentenced to life imprisonment. In June 1999, he filed a pro se motion for reduction of sentence. The trial court denied the motion on the ground that it no longer had jurisdiction to modify Daniels’s sentence. Daniels appeals. Because the ordinary time period for modification of sentence had elapsed, and Daniels’s sentence was not subject to modification as void, we affirm.

A trial court does not have unlimited jurisdiction to modify a sentence.

A trial court has no jurisdiction to modify a sentence after the…