State v. Pike

OPINION

JACOBSON, Presiding Judge.

The question before the court is whether the trial court erred in reducing the defendant’s sentence from not less than 40 nor more than 50 years to not less than 15 nor more than 30 years. The state brings this petition for review pursuant to 17 A.R.S., Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 32.9, from the trial court’s order granting the defendant’s petition for post-conviction relief, and denying the state’s motion for rehearing. We find that the trial court did err in granting the petition for post-conviction relief.

On July 10, 1975, the defendant was convicted…