State v. Carlson

¶ 1. David M. Carlson received a twenty-three year bifurcated sentence after he pled guilty to multiple sexual assaults of a child under the age of sixteen. He seeks to withdraw his guilty plea on grounds of ineffective assistance of counsel, arguing that his trial counsel was ineffective because he told Carlson that pleading guilty would give him a "realistic possibility" of a nonprison sentence. Carlson claims based on sentencing data that a nonprison sentence was a practical impossibility. Carlson also challenges his sentence on three different grounds: (1) that it was based on inaccurate…