Stofferahn v. State

AMDAHL, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from the denial of a petition for postconviction relief in the form of resentencing according to the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 590.01, subd. 3 (Supp.1981). We affirm.

Petitioner, who is now 45, was charged in Hennepin County District Court in 1979 of two counts of criminal sexual conduct in the second degree alleging that he had sexually penetrated two young girls. Pursuant to a plea bargain, petitioner pleaded guilty to one count of criminal sexual conduct in the second degree and was sentenced to 5 years in prison.…