State v. Hickman

OPINION

ROBERT H. SCHUMACHER, Judge.

This appeal is from a sentence imposed for five counts of tax evasion under Minn. Stat. § 289.63, subd. 1(a) (1998). The state argues that the district court abused its discretion in granting respondent Geoffrey Hickman a downward dispositional departure. We affirm.

FACTS

Hickman was charged in March 2002 with five counts of felony tax evasion for failing to file Minnesota state tax returns for the 1996,1997, 1998,1999, and 2000 tax years. The complaint alleged that Hickman was a Northwest Airlines pilot, had flown out of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International…