Resper v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the defendant’s sentence had not been improperly altered because “[t]he sentencing phase of the proceeding had not been terminated” and the court was therefore “free to clarify the sentence”
• noting that until a sentence is formally imposed, the court retains discretion to modify it
• If a statute contains an ambiguity, the court must look to not only the literal or usual meaning of the words, but their meaning and effect in light of the setting, the objectives and purpose of the enactment in order to find a construction that best realizes the legislative intent
• adopting the BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY (6th ed.1990
• adopting the Black’s Law Dictionary (6th ed.1990

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).