State v. Shepard
Annotate this CaseDefendant Adrian Shepard pled nolo contendere to conspiracy to commit a felony, for which he was sentenced to ten years at the adult correctional institutions, consisting of two years to serve and eight years suspended, with probation. The superior court subsequently declared Shepard to be in violation of the terms of his probation and revoked three years of Shepard's suspended sentence. The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the superior court, holding (1) the hearing justice did not act arbitrarily or capriciously in finding that the State presented sufficient evidence to meet the burden of reasonable satisfaction to find that Shepard violated his probation; and (2) the revocation of three years of Shepard's suspended sentence was a sustainable exercise of the hearing justice's broad discretion.
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