HB 231 -- Criminal Sentencing

Co-Sponsors:  Jolly, Marsh, Willoughby

Currently, when a law is amended to reduce the penalty for
violating that law, defendants receiving their original
sentencing must be sentenced or fined using the amended law,
regardless of when the offense was committed.  This bill repeals
that requirement.

Current law also allows the Board of Probation and Parole to
convert a convicted defendant's consecutive sentences to
concurrent sentences.  The bill repeals that authority.

Missouri House of Representatives
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