RULE 6.490.   CORRECTION AND REDUCTION OF PENALTY

(a)   Correction of Penalty. An official may at any time correct an illegal penalty.

(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.


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