STATE v. BURGESS

No. 94-600.

141 N.H. 51 (1996)

THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE v. KENNETH BURGESS

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

May 23, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey R. Howard, attorney general (Ann M. Rice, assistant attorney general, on the brief and orally), for the State.

James E. Duggan, chief appellate defender, of Concord, by brief and orally, for the defendant.


BROCK, C.J.

The question in this appeal is a narrow one: Where the trial court imposed a specific sentence and deferred its execution, and the sentence did not provide for probation, did the court have the authority thereafter to add a term of probation at a later hearing on the deferred sentence? In the circumstances of this case, we hold that it did not.

In February 1993, the defendant, Kenneth Burgess, pled guilty...

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