9 GCA § 80.10

Types of Sentences Allowed

Guam Code AnnotatedTitle 9 — Crimes and Corrections

(a)Unless otherwise provided by law, the court may suspend the imposition of sentence of a person who has been convicted of a crime in accordance with § 80.60, may order him to be committed in lieu of sentence in accordance with § 80.20 or may sentence him as follows:

(1)to imprisonment for a term required by law; CH. 80 DISPOSITION OF OFFENDERS

(2)to imprisonment and to an additional parole;

(3)to pay a fine or make restitution as authorized by law;

(4)to alternative community service or to self-improvement and rehabilitative programs;

(5)to be placed on probation as authorized by law; or

(6)to pay a fine, to make restitution and to be placed on probation; to make restitution and imprisonment or to pay a fine and imprisonment.

(b)Where the judgment of conviction included more than one crime, the sentences imposed may run concurrently or consecutively except that if such sentences run consecutively, the provisions of §§ 80.38, 80.40 and 80.42 shall not be applicable.

(c)The court may suspend the imposition of sentence on a person who has been convicted of a violation or may sentence him to pay a fine or make restitution as authorized by § 80.50.

(d)Nothing in this Code deprives the court of any authority otherwise conferred by law to decree [a] forfeiture of property, suspend or cancel the license, remove a person from office or impose any other civil penalty, such a judgment or order may be included in the sentence.

§ The story of this section

Affected by P.L. 13-185 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
Amended by P.L. 14-143 § 9 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
Enacted by P.L. 15-116 § 3 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
Amended by P.L. 16-51 § 2 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
Amended by P.L. 19-4 § 1 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)

Interpreted by the courts:

1996 Guam 9 — George Taisipic vs. Francisco Marion, et al (1996) · per Janet Healy Weeks, J. · cited at ¶21
1998 Guam 11 — People of Guam vs. Rolpherdo R. Anson (1998) · per Benjamin J.F. Cruz, J. · pinpoints (a)(5) at ¶11
2001 Guam 4 — People of Guam v. Donicio M. San Nicolas (2001) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J. · pinpoints (b) at ¶28
2003 Guam 11 — People of Guam vs. Superior Court of Guam, Francisco H. Chiguina, Jr. (2003) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J. · pinpoints (a) at ¶8
2007 Guam 11 — People of Guam, Plaintiff v. Benjamin King Gay, Defendant (2007) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J. · pinpoints (a) at ¶4
2010 Guam 17 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Richard A. Quinata, Defendant-Appellant (2010) · per Robert J. Torres, J. · pinpoints (a)(5), (a)(5)(2005) at ¶50
2014 Guam 11 — The People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Ervin Rivamonte Enriquez, Defendant-Appellee, CRA13-006 (2014) · pinpoints (a) at ¶31
2015 Guam 30 — The People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Frankie Garrido Blas, Defendant-Appellant, CRA14-010 (2015) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J. · cited at ¶40
2016 Guam 34 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Blane Ngirngesang Ongiil, Defendant-Appellant, CRA15-033 (2016) · per Robert J. Torres, J. · pinpoints (b) at ¶22
2022 Guam 11 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Brandon Michael Acosta, Defendant-Appellant (2022) · per Robert J. Torres, J. · pinpoints (a)(6) at ¶72
2023 Guam 18 — People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dennis Castro Aldan, Defendant-Appellant (2023) · per Katherine A. Maraman, J. · pinpoints (b) at ¶14

Reconstructed from the Guam Code Annotated. For the authoritative version, see the official PDF.