West Virginia Supreme Court· 5/16/2001

State v. Sanders

Citations

549 S.E.2d 40
209 W. Va. 367
2001 W. Va. LEXIS 48

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stating that defendant should, if found competent on remand, be “resentence[d] ... to no more than the previously offered thirty years, as we find nothing in the record affirmatively showing that the escalation in sentence was not the result of [the defendant’s] refusal to plead guilty”
“In order to bring a successful substantive competency claim, a defendant must prove that he or she was, in fact, incompetent at trial.”
trial court offered sentence of thirty years imprisonment if defendant chose to plead guilty

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Judges: McGraw, Maynard

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