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Montana's Supreme Court on Friday blocked a judge from resentencing a former teacher who got just 30 days in prison for raping a 14-year-old student, a sentence that was widely criticized after the judge said the victim was "older than her chronological age." 
  
 Montana District Judge G. Todd Baugh reads a statement apologizing for remarks he made about a 14-year-old girl raped by a teacher in Billings, Mont., Wednesday Aug. 28, 2013. State prosecutors said Wednesday... (Associated Press) 
  
 Justices said Judge G. Todd Baugh lacks authority to reconsider the sentence he gave former Billings teacher Stacey Rambold, 54. 
  
 An appeal of the case already was pending, but Baugh had been seeking to possibly undo the sentence that was panned after his remarks. Baugh also commented that victim Cherice Moralez was "as much in control of the situation as was the defendant." 
  
 The girl committed suicide in 2010 while Rambold's trial was pending. 
  
 The Attorney General's Office filed an emergency petition to stop the Friday afternoon hearing. Attorneys for the state had warned that holding it as planned could throw the case into disarray and "cause gross injustice to an orderly appeal." 
  
 Less than an hour before the hearing was set to begin, the high court ordered Baugh to cancel it and enter a written sentencing for Rambold. 
  
 Baugh appeared in his courtroom shortly after the hearing was scheduled to begin. He told a group of reporters and observers that he decided he could not resentence Rambold even before the Supreme Court intervened. The judge also seemed to affix some degree of blame for his original sentence to prosecutors, who he said did not raise objections until after the fact. 
  
 Prosecutors contend that state law dictates Rambold serve at least two years in prison. Rambold's defense attorney want the sentence unchanged, but agreed with prosecutors that it can be undone only on appeal. 
  
 The Yellowstone County Attorney's office originally called for a 20-year prison sentence for Rambold, with 10 years suspended. 
  
 But prosecutors didn't challenge the 30-day sentence as illegal until after-the-fact, when they discovered the mandatory minimum term for sexual intercourse without consent was two years. 
  
 The sentence handed down Aug. 26 had been suggested by Rambold's attorney, Jay Lansing. 
  
 Lansing said in a court brief filed this week that a new sentence from Baugh would have created "confusion and uncertainty for all parties." 
  
 He also said the original sentence _ 15 years with all but 31 days suspended and a one-day credit for time served _ was allowed under state law. 
  
 Baugh has said giving Rambold the minimum mandatory sentence was appropriate due to the circumstances of the case. He described the former teacher with no prior record as a low risk to re-offend after spending more than two years in a sex-offender treatment program. 
  
 The defendant entered that program in 2010, after Moralez's suicide left prosecutors without their main witness in the case shortly before it was scheduled to go to trial. 
  
 That led to a deferred prosecution deal that allowed Rambold to avoid trial until he violated the terms of the agreement last year, for not reporting that he was in a sexual relationship with a woman and for unauthorized visits with family members' children. 
  
 Court documents show there were complaints about Rambold's conduct with female students as early as 2004. Three years before his relationship with Moralez, prosecutors say, "he was warned to stay away from young girls in his class." 
  
 No charges were filed, and Lansing has said his client would challenge those accusations. ||||| (CNN) -- Saying outrage over his sentencing of a rapist to 30 days in jail could have been avoided "if I'd been more alert or if the state had pointed out" his error, a Montana judge confirmed that a higher court barred him from revisiting the sentence on Friday. 
  
 As part of that same decision, the state Supreme Court ruled that Judge G. Todd Baugh couldn't hold a hearing he had scheduled to reconsider the sentence. 
  
 Baugh had planned to reconsider the punishment after outrage over his initial sentence of a teacher who admitted raping a 14-year-old student. He explained Friday that he now understands that the conviction carried a minimum of 2 years in jail -- not 30 days -- and called Friday's hearing to address his mistake. 
  
 The high court order came shortly before this hearing on Friday, the judge said. After it did, Baugh said that he signed paperwork that -- over his objections -- sends the case on to the higher court. 
  
 "The appeal process will proceed forward, the Supreme Court will review the matter, and they will issue whatever orders they think are appropriate at that point in time," Baugh explained as to what will happen now. 
  
 In a strange twist to an already odd case, the defense and prosecution agreed that Friday's hearing should be called off -- albeit for very different reasons. Both sides questioned whether revisiting the sentence was even legal, with the defense saying nothing should change and prosecutors saying changing it could hurt their appeal. 
  
 They got what they wanted when the state high court vacated the hearing. 
  
 "We conclude that the stated intent of the District Court to alter the initially imposed oral sentence in today's scheduled hearing is unlawful and that the proceeding should be arrested," the court said. "We take no position on the legality of the imposed sentence and will address the parties' arguments in that regard on appeal." 
  
 Noting his office appealed to the state Supreme Court on Wednesday, Montana Attorney General Tim Fox cheered Friday's decision and the fact prosecutors "are moving forward with (the) process." 
  
 "The only way to ensure the rule of law prevails and justice is ultimately served is for my office to appeal the sentence," Fox said in a statement. 
  
 The defense, meanwhile, believes the sentence earlier announced in court by Baugh -- with all but 30 days suspended -- should stand. 
  
 In a response filed Thursday with the Yellowstone County Court, defense attorney Jay Lansing joined prosecutors in saying that the new hearing would be "without legal authority." 
  
 The case drew widespread attention when Baugh imposed the 30-day sentence on Stacey Dean Rambold and made controversial comments about the victim, saying she "seemed older than her chronological age." 
  
 Rambold admitted raping the girl while he was her teacher at her high school. Cherice Moralez took her life shortly before her 17th birthday. 
  
 In an order this week, the judge said it appears the mandatory minimum is two years, not 30 days. He said the court, "if necessary and appropriate," would amend the sentence at Friday's hearing. 
  
 Such a hearing, however, would "create confusion and uncertainty for all parties left to interpret and execute the sentence of Mr. Rambold," Lansing argued. 
  
 He said his client contends the sentence imposed, which prosecutors are appealing, is lawful and appropriate. 
  
 Prosecutors filed an emergency petition Thursday with the Montana Supreme Court, asking it to stop the scheduled hearing. 
  
 While acknowledging "the district court's effort to correct the error at the trial court level," they wrote that the "only remedy prescribed by statute and case law is appeal before this court. 
  
 "Further, the September 6 hearing, if permitted to be conducted, will undermine the State's appeal and otherwise frustrate the just and orderly administration of ordinary appeal processes," the petition read. 
  
 CNN's Eliott C. McLaughlin, Greg Botelho and Miguel Marquez contributed to this report. |||||

That controversial 30-day sentence handed down to a Montana teacher who had sex with a teenage student won't be changed after all. The state Supreme Court today ruled that Judge G. Todd Baugh—the one who set off an uproar by saying the 14-year-old victim was older than her chronological years—could not legally hold a new sentencing hearing as he had planned, reports CNN. The ruling came only about an hour before the scheduled start of the hearing. "We take no position on the legality of the imposed sentence and will address the parties' arguments in that regard on appeal," the court ruled. Neither the defense nor the prosecution wanted Baugh to go ahead with the hearing. Prosecutors, for instance, thought it would confuse the pending appeal. Baugh doesn't seem bothered by today's decision. After it was announced, he told reporters that he had decided not to go through with the resentencing anyway, reports AP.