State v. Amos

In these two consolidated cases, the trial court sentenced a felony offender to one or more community-control sanctions without first ordering and reviewing a presentence investigation report. In both cases, the sanction ordered was a sentence of pre-trial jail time served following a plea. The Supreme Court entered judgment in favor of the defendants in both cases, holding that, although requiring a presentence investigation for every felony conviction when the offender is not sent to prison is excessive and unwarranted, a trial court acts contrary to law when it imposes a sentence of one or more community-control sanctions on a felony offender without first ordering and reviewing a presentence investigation report. View "State v. Amos" on Justia Law