SC20702 - State v. Butler (“This certified appeal requires us to decide, as a matter
of first impression, whether a criminal court has inherent common-law
jurisdiction to open a judgment of dismissal following the defendant’s completion
of a supervised diversionary program within four months of the date it was
rendered. We are also asked to decide whether the trial court has the authority
to open the same judgment of dismissal if that judgment was the result of
purported misrepresentations to the court. We conclude that criminal courts do
not have jurisdiction to open a judgment following a dismissal. We also decline
to reach the second certified question because the trial court made no findings
of misrepresentations in the present case.”)