SHEA, J.
The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether the trial court, Melville, J., had jurisdiction to rule upon a motion filed by the defendant to reduce or correct his sentence after his first appeal from the judgment imposing that sentence had terminated unsuccessfully. We conclude that the court had no such jurisdiction. Accordingly, we find error and remand the case to the trial court with direction to reinstate the original sentence.
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