
    FROM: The District Court of the 7th Judicial District. County of Dawson.
    STATE OF MONTANA, Plaintiff, vs. Kenneth R. Jones, Defendant.
    NO. 98-002 DECISION
   On August 13,1998, the defendant was sentenced to the following: Count I: twenty (20) years in the Montana State Prison, with ten (10) years suspended; Count II: twenty (20) years in the Montana State Prison, with ten (10) years suspended, to run consecutively to the sentence imposed in Count I; and Count III: ten (10) years in the Montana State Prison, with five (5) years suspended, to run concurrently with the sentence imposed in Count II.

On February 11, 1999, the defendant’s application for review of that sentence was heard by the Sentence Review Division of the Montana Supreme Court.

The defendant was present and advised of his right to be represented by counsel. The Defendant proceeded Pro Se. The state was not represented.

Before hearing the application, the defendant was advised that the Sentence Review Division has the authority not only to reduce the sentence or affirm it, but also to increase it. The defendant was further advised that there is no appeal from a decision of the Sentence Review Division. The defendant acknowledged that he understood this and stated that he did not wish to proceed at this time.

After careful consideration, it is the unanimous decision of the Sentence Review Division that the application for review of sentence be continued until the June, 1999, meeting pending the outcome of the petition for postconviction relief that was filed by the defendant.

Done in open Court this 11th day of February, 1999.

DATED this 9th day of March, 1999.

Chairman, Hon. Richard G. Phillips, Member, Hon. Jeffrey H. Langton and Member, Hon. Marge Johnson  