State v. Castoreno

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Allegrucci, J.:

This is a direct appeal by Gregory Castoreño from his jury convictions of aggravated criminal sodomy and rape. The district court initially sentenced Castoreño to concurrent terms of 15 years to life. Upon his motion for modification, the district court reduced his sentence to a controlling term of six years to life.

On October 23, 1989, the. victim, T.H., shared an apartment with Carrie Winters. Both T.H. and Carrie had daughters who lived with them. That evening, three people T.H. knew dropped by, and they were drinking. In addition,…