State v. Giard
Annotate this CaseDefendant pled nolo contendere to one count of felony assault and received a deferred sentence. Thereafter, Defendant was presented with a notice of violation based on an alleged act of second-degree child molestation of Jessica, Defendant’s niece. After a trial, the jury acquitted Defendant of second-degree child molestation. The hearing justice, however, imposed on Defendant a twenty-five-year sentence with five years to serve, concluding that, by his sexual contact with Jessica, Defendant had violated the conditions of his deferred sentence. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the hearing justice did not act unreasonably or arbitrarily in finding that a violation of the conditions of Defendant’s deferred sentence had occurred.
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