Priest v. State

JOHNSON, Presiding Judge.

On April 14, 1999, Anthony Priest pled guilty to three counts of aggravated child molestation and three counts of aggravated sodomy committed against three young girls. The trial court ruled that the three aggravated sodomy charges merged with the three aggravated child molestation charges as a matter of fact.1 Pursuant to the plea agreement negotiated by the state and Priest, the trial court sentenced Priest to serve a total of 15 years in confinement and 25 years on probation. The court, in accord with the plea agreement, reached this forty-year total by giving…