State v. Wallis

OPINION

ROSENBLATT, Judge.

This is an appeal from the sentences imposed after the defendant, Charles David Wallis, pled guilty to two counts of armed robbery under A.R.S. §§ 13-1902, 1904. After accepting the defendant’s plea agreement, which provided that a third count would be dropped, the court sentenced Wallis to concurrent presumptive terms of 15.75 years on each of the two remaining charges.

The facts important to a resolution of this matter are undisputed. Wallis had been serving sentences for prior convictions of forgery, grand theft and burglary when he escaped from a “halfway house”…