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Attorney general-backed bill would clarify sentence computation after revocation following Wolfblack decision
Summary
Attorney General‑requested House Bill 612 seeks to fix sentence computation that the attorneys general’s office says was disrupted by State v. Wolfblack, which the proponents say produced unintended sentence shortening on revocation.
Representative Greg Overstreet presented House Bill 612 as an attorney general request bill to correct an issue created by the Montana Supreme Court’s recent decision in State v. Wolfblack (2024). Proponents said the court’s interpretation effectively allowed a defendant who had a suspended sentence revoked to receive a shorter total term because the revoked sentence was treated as running concurrently with another sentence, creating an incentive to violate a suspended sentence.
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