Pearson v. Moore

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the power to sentence rests entirely with the courts
• “As part of the executive branch, DOC lacks the power to adjudicate the legality of a sentence or to add or delete sentencing conditions.”
• Department violated separations of powers by “allegedly transform[ing] what was effectively a five-year term of incarceration into a term of incarceration more than twice as long.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).