- A. Any time within one hundred twenty (120) days after a sentence is imposed or within one hundred twenty (120) days after probation has been revoked, the court imposing sentence or revocation of probation may modify such by directing that another penalty be imposed if the court is satisfied that the best interests of the public will not be jeopardized. This section shall not apply to convicted felons who have been in confinement in any state prison system for any previous felony conviction during the ten-year period preceding the date that the sentence this section applies to was imposed.
- B. The Department of Corrections shall provide the court imposing sentence or revocation of probation with the report by the Lexington Assessment and Reception Center and any other information the Department can supply on an inmate. The court shall consider such reports when modifying the sentence or revocation of probation.
- C. If the court considers modification of the sentence or revocation of probation, a hearing shall be made in open court. The clerk of the court imposing sentence or revocation of probation shall give notice of the hearing and provide a copy of the report by the Lexington Assessment and Reception Center to the inmate, the inmate's legal counsel and the district attorney of the county in which the inmate was convicted not less than twenty-one (21) days prior to the hearing.
- D. If an appeal is taken which results in a modification of the sentence or revocation of probation of the defendant, such sentence may be further modified in the manner hereinbefore described within one hundred twenty (120) days after the receipt by the clerk of the district court of the mandate from the Supreme Court or the Court of Criminal Appeals.
Laws 1983, SB 127, c. 37, § 1, eff. November 1, 1983.