State v. Babbel

How courts have described this case

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

• reasoning that “a defendant is not likely to appeal a sentence that is unlawfully lenient, and there is, therefore, minimal chilling effect on the right to appeal”
• trial court has power to correct illegal sentence “at any time, whether before or after an appeal, and even if there is no appeal”
• a trial court has continuing jurisdiction to correct an illegal sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).