GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1987 SESSION
CHAPTER 90
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 90-95(h)(5) reads as rewritten:
"(5) A person sentenced
under this subsection is not eligible for early release or early parole
if the person is sentenced as a committed youthful offender and the sentencing
judge may not suspend the sentence or place the person sentenced on
probation. A person sentenced under this subsection as a committed
youthful offender shall be eligible for release or parole no earlier than that
person would have been had he been sentenced under this subsection as a regular
offender. The sentencing judge may reduce the fine, or impose a
prison term less than the applicable minimum prison term provided by this
subsection, or suspend the prison term imposed and place a person on probation
when such person has, to the best of his knowledge, provided substantial
assistance in the identification, arrest, or conviction of any accomplices,
accessories, co-conspirators, or principals if the sentencing judge enters in
the record a finding that the person to be sentenced has rendered such
substantial assistance."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 24th day of April, 1987.