Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 46. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 18. SENTENCE AND JUDGMENT

Part 9. Appellate Review of Legal Sentences

Interested Judge Not To Act

46-18-902. Interested judge not to act. A judge may not sit or act on a review of a sentence that was imposed by the judge. In any case in which review of a sentence imposed by any of the judges serving on the review division is to be acted on by the division or if any member is unavailable to serve, the chief justice of the supreme court of Montana may designate another judge to act in place of the judge.

History: En. 95-2501 by Sec. 1, Ch. 196, L. 1967; R.C.M. 1947, 95-2501(part); amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 69, L. 2003.