State v. Ponte-Alfonzo

SIMONETT, Justice.

Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of two counts of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree and one count of assault with a dangerous weapon, Minn. Stat. §§ 609.342(c, d) and 609.222 (1982). The trial court sentenced defendant to 43 months in prison for the first of the two counts of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, the one based on subsection (c), involving fear of imminent great bodily harm, rather than on the second count, based on subsection (d), involving use or threatened use of a dangerous weapon or an object looking like a dangerous…