State v. Robert Beaudoin

OPINION

Justice GOLDBERG,

for the Court.

General Laws 1956 § 12-19-18 was amended by the General Assembly in 2010, see P.L. 2010, ch. 311, § 1, to provide that a sentence of imprisonment after a finding of probation violation shall be quashed, and the imprisonment terminated, in certain circumstances occurring after' a judgment of probation violation is entered by a justice of the Superior Court. See § 12-19 — 18(b). 1 In this appeal, we are called upon to determine whether this case — in which a trial justice imposed a suspended sentence and probationary terni on the defendant, Robert Beaudoin,…