State v. Mortland

OPINION

AMDAHL, Chief Justice.

We granted the state’s petition for review of the Court of Appeals’ decision in State v. Mortland, 395 N.W.2d 469 (Minn.Ct.App.1986), which reduced defendant Mortland’s sentence from 300 months to 237 months. Concluding that the trial court was justified in imposing a 300-month sentence and that the Court of Appeals erred in reducing it, we reinstate the 300-month sentence.

Defendant is a compulsive sex offender who was convicted of criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree in 1979 and in 1980 and of criminal sexual conduct in the second degree in 1981. His…