SENTENCING: Judge lacked authority to sua sponte dismiss felony sexual abuse of children to which Defendant had pled guilty and amend or re-charge it to misdemeanor surreptitious recording… Deschamps reversed. [Read more…]

SENTENCING: State’s petition for supervisory control challenging Deschamps’ sua sponte reduction at sentencing of plea-agreed felony sexual abuse of children to misdemeanor surreptitious recording denied without prejudice to its right to appeal the final judgment… order. [Read more…]