State v. Chase

OPINION

PARKER, Judge.

This is a sentencing appeal by a criminal defendant attacking a dispositional and du-rational departure from the sentencing guidelines.

Dennis Chase pled guilty to two counts of criminal sexual conduct in the second degree, Minn.Stat. § 609.343(a) (1980) (sexual contact with complainant under 13 years of age by actor who is more than 36 months older). Since he had a criminal history score of zero, the presumptive sentence for the first offense was 21 months stayed, and for the second offense, 26 months stayed.

The trial court followed the sentencing guidelines for the first…