State v. Adams
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of several crimes and sentenced to a term of imprisonment of fifty-five years for felony murder, twenty years for first degree robbery, and five years for carrying a pistol without a permit, each to run concurrently. Defendant subsequently filed a motion to correct an illegal sentence, claiming that felony murder was an unclassified felony subject to a maximum term of imprisonment of twenty-five years. The trial court denied the motion. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the trial court's sentence was proper because felony murder is not an unclassified felony but, rather, a felony classified as murder and, as such, is punishable by a term of imprisonment of twenty-five years to life.
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