
    FROM: The District Court of the 4th Judicial District. County of Missoula.
    STATE OF MONTANA, Plaintiff, vs. Robert Hubbard, Defendant.
    NO. 12577 DECISION
   On May 1, 1997, it was the judgment of the court that Robert Hubbard be and is hereby sentenced to a term of five (5) years in the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge, Montana. The sentence shall run concurrently with the sentence imposed in Cause No. 12632. The court further finds that for purposes of parole that the defendant is a non-violent offender. That, however, three (3) years of defendant’s sentence is hereby suspended on terms and conditions as stated in the May 1,1997 judgment. Defendant shall receive credit for time served at Missoula County Jail from February 27, 1997, through date of sentencing, April 15, 1997, in the amount of forty-eight (48) days.

On August 22, 1997 , the defendant’s application for review of that sentence was heard by the Sentence Review Division of the Montana Supreme Court.

DATED this 11th day of September, 1997.

The defendant was present and 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 wished to proceed.

Rule 17 of the Rules of the Sentence Review Division provides: "The sentence imposed by the District Court is presumed correct, and the sentence will not be reduced or increased unless it is deemed clearly inadequate or excessive." (Section 45-18-904(3), MCA.) The Division finds that the reasons advanced for modification are insufficient to hold that the sentence imposed by the District Court is inadequate, or excessive.

After careful consideration, it is the unanimous decision of the Sentence Review Division that the sentence shall be affirmed.

Done in open Court this 22nd day of August, 1997.

Chairman, Hon. Jeffrey M. Sherlock, Member, Hon. Richard Phillips and Alternate Member, Hon. Jeff Langton '

The Sentence Review Board wishes to thank Robert Hubbard for representing himself in this matter.  