15 M.R.S. §2151: Application to the Supreme Judicial Court by defendant for review of certain sentences
Where this section sits in the code
- TITLE 15: COURT PROCEDURE -- CRIMINAL
- PART 4: JUDGMENT AND PROCEEDINGS
- CHAPTER 306-A: SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT SENTENCE REVIEW
In cases arising in the District Court or the Superior Court in which a defendant has been convicted of a criminal offense and sentenced to a term of imprisonment of one year or more, the defendant may apply to the Supreme Judicial Court, sitting as the Law Court, for review of the sentence, except:
1. Different term could not be imposed. In any case in which a different term of imprisonment could not have been imposed;
2. Plea agreements. In any case in which the particular disposition involving imprisonment was imposed as a result of a court accepting a recommendation of the type specified in the Maine Rules of Unified Criminal Procedure, Rule 11A, subsection (a)(2) or (a)(4); or
3. Restitution. As limited by Title 17‑A, section 2017.
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