Lee v. State

ALTENBERND, Judge.

Charles Lee appeals his sentence for attempted first-degree murder, which was imposed on resentencing following the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48, 130 S.Ct. 2011, 176 L.Ed.2d 825 (2010). On resen-tencing, the trial court sentenced Mr. Lee to forty years’ incarceration with a twenty-five-year minimum mandatory term. We affirm.

On the evening of November 21, 1999, Mr. Lee was on a street and got into a disagreement with two people who were in a van attempting to purchase cocaine. The nature of the disagreement is not entirely clear,…