State of Maine v. Walter A. Parker

[¶ 1] Walter A. Parker appeals the sentence imposed on him by the trial court (Cumberland County, Warren, J.) following a resentencing hearing. The sentence was imposed following Parker’s plea of guilty to three counts of gross sexual assault (Class A), 17-A M.R.S. § 253(1)(C) (2016), and two counts of unlawful sexual contact (Class B), 17-A M.R.S. § 255-A(1)(E-1) (2016). All charges involved sexual assaults on a nine-year-old girl over an extended period of time. The court ultimately sentenced Parker to a twenty-year term of imprisonment followed by fifteen years of supervised release, in…