Maine Code § 15-2151

Application to the Supreme Judicial Court by defendant for review of certain sentences
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In cases arising in the District Court or the Superior Court in which a defendant has been convicted
of a criminal offense and sentenced to a term of imprisonment of one year or more, the defendant may
apply to the Supreme Judicial Court, sitting as the Law Court, for review of the sentence, except: [PL
1997, c. 354, §1 (AMD).]
1. Different term could not be imposed. In any case in which a different term of imprisonment
could not have been imposed;
[PL 1999, c. 731, Pt. ZZZ, §23 (AMD); PL 1999, c. 731, Pt. ZZZ, §42 (AFF).]
2. Plea agreements. In any case in which the particular disposition involving imprisonment was
imposed as a result of a court accepting a recommendation of the type specified in the Maine Rules of
Unified Criminal Procedure, Rule 11A, subsection (a)(2) or (a)(4); or
[PL 2015, c. 431, §26 (AMD).]
3. Restitution. As limited by Title 17-A, section 2017.
[PL 2019, c. 113, Pt. C, §42 (AMD).]

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