State v. Van Ruler

OPINION

POPOVICH, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from appellant’s concurrent sentences for four counts of intra-familial sexual abuse in the first degree. Appellant claims (1) the trial court abused its discretion by utilizing the Hernandez method of sentencing, and (2) the trial court acted improperly by refusing to depart dispositionally from the presumptive sentence and grant appellant a stayed sentence. We affirm.

FACTS

A Pipestone County sheriff’s office investigation revealed appellant had been sexually abusing his daughter from when she was six years old until she was I2V2 to 13 years old.…