State v. Mason

¶1 The defendant, Jeffrey Mason (Mason), was charged in the Montana Twentieth Judicial District Court, Lake County, with ten criminal counts. Pursuant to a plea bargain agreement, all charges against Mason were dismissed except for two counts of assault, felonies in violation of § 45-5-201(l)(a), MCA (1997), and one count of criminal possession of a dangerous drug, a felony in violation of § 45-9-102(1), MCA (1999). Mason pled guilty to one of the felony assault charges and nolo contendere to the other, and pled guilty to criminal possession of oxycodone, a dangerous drug. At sentencing, the…