Piringer v. State

AMDAHL, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by Robert Carl Piringer, Jr., age 26, from an order of the Washington County District Court denying his petition for postconviction relief in the form of resentencing according to the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 590.01, subd. 3 (Supp.1981). We affirm.

On April 7, 1980, petitioner kidnapped a young woman, took her to a wooded area, removed her clothes, tied her to a tree, cut her breasts and vagina, forced her to submit to fellatio and sexual intercourse, and then cut off her pubic hair with a knife. After discovering that…