State v. Fairbanks

SHERAN, Chief Justice.

This appeal, pursuant to Minn.Stat. § 244.11 (1980), permitting appellate review of sentences in criminal cases, is from a judgment of conviction of aggravated robbery, Minn.Stat. § 609.245 (1980), based on a negotiated guilty plea whereby the state agreed that in exchange for the plea the other charge against defendant (burglary of a dwelling with assault) would be dismissed and defendant’s sentence would run concurrently with the unexpired part of a previously imposed prison term. The sentencing judge, in imposing a 72-month prison term, departed from the presumptive…