State v. Larson

HALL, Chief Justice:

Defendant challenges the constitutionality of the minimum mandatory sentencing scheme of the child sodomy statute 1 on the grounds of equal protection, cruel and unusual punishment, and vagueness. He also challenges the propriety of his sentence for sexual abuse of a child.

Defendant was charged with one count of sodomy 2 on his five-year-old stepdaughter and one count of sexual abuse 3 of his four-year-old stepdaughter. The offenses were committed in defendant’s home, where the victims had resided since defendant’s marriage to their mother five months previously. The…