MacHniak v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice ABRAMSON.

Joshua Machniak received a three-year prison sentence, probated for three years, but upon revocation of his probation approximately eight months after formal sentencing, the trial court imposed instead a twenty-year prison sentence. While this escalated twenty-year sentence upon revocation of probation was in accord with Machniak’s plea agreement, it was contrary to the trial court’s written judgment entered at the time of sentencing. Machniak maintains the trial court erred by imposing the lengthier sentence in contravention of the written judgment…