RULE 6.490. CORRECTION AND REDUCTION OF PENALTY
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RULE 6.490. CORRECTION AND REDUCTION OF PENALTY
(a) Correction of Penalty. An official may at any time correct an illegal penalty.
PDF page 30(b) Reduction of Penalty. An official may reduce a legal penalty:
(1) within 180 days after its imposition, or thereafter with good cause shown;
(2) within 60 days after the appellate court issues a mandate affirming the judgment and/or penalty;
(3) within 60 days after the appellate court issues a mandate dismissing an appeal from the judgment and/or penalty; or
(4) if further appellate review is sought in a higher court or in successively higher courts, then within 60 days after the highest state or federal court to which a timely appeal has been taken under authority of law, or in which a petition for certiorari has been timely filed under authority of law, has entered an order of affirmance or an order dismissing the appeal and/or denying certiorari.