State v. Bishop

STEWART, Justice:

The defendant was found guilty and mentally ill on three counts of sodomy on a child in violation of U.C.A., 1953, § 76-5-403.1 in three separate trials and sentenced to three concurrent indeterminate sentences of five years to life. The minimum five-year sentences are mandatory, unlike most minimum terms under the state’s general indeterminate sentencing scheme for most crimes.

On this appeal, the defendant challenges the constitutionality of section 76-5-403.1,1 which fixes the maximum prison sentence at life and the minimum sentence at a mandatory five years, ten years, or…