Commonwealth v. Jackson

Syllabus

In a probation revocation proceeding, a circuit court found that the probationer violated terms of probation terms and suspension conditions imposed regarding one of his 20 felony convictions and one of his seven misdemeanor convictions. During the hearing, the court twice stated that one resentencing factor it considered (among others) was that the probationer did not accept responsibility for his actions, which the probationer interprets to mean that the court punished him for pleading not guilty to the charged technical probation violations. The Court of Appeals agreed. On the present appeal this Court disagrees, and reverses the Court of Appeals' judgment, and reinstates the judgment of the circuit court.