Legal Opinion

Armando Ramirez v. State

Wyoming Supreme Court

Decided December 28, 2016No. S-16-0064PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HILL, Justice.

[¶1] Armando Ramirez entered a conditional guilty plea to a fourth offense felony DWUI charge. Ramirez claims his latest DWUI does not qualify as his fourth offense in the last ten years, because although the offense occurred within ten years of his oldest relevant prior conviction, he did not plead guilty until after ten years had passed. We will affirm.

ISSUE

[¶2] We rephrase the issue as follows:

Whether the felony penalty under Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 31-5-233 requires three or more prior convictions within ten years of the conviction on the current charge?

FACTS

[¶3] On July 11, 2013,…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Cabell v. MarkhamCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1945
  2. Markham v. CabellSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
  3. Rodriguez v. CaseyWyoming Supreme Court · 2002
  4. Adebowale Oluseyi Adekale A/K/A Ted AdekaleWyoming Supreme Court · 2015
  5. Stutzman v. Office of the Wyoming State EngineerWyoming Supreme Court · 2006

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Cassidy v. Teton Cnty. Coroner (In re Birkholz)Wyoming Supreme Court · 2019
  2. Rhoads v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 2018
  3. Russell Lee Lynch v. The State of WyomingWyoming Supreme Court · 2026
  4. Roy David Stanger v. The State of WyomingWyoming Supreme Court · 2021

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