State v. Gibbons

STEWART, Justice:

Bruce Gibbons was charged with two counts of sexual abuse of a child and one count of sodomy on a child. Sexual abuse of a child is a second degree felony. Sodomy on a child is a first degree felony, subject to a minimum mandatory sentence of five, ten, or fifteen years’ imprisonment.

Initially, Gibbons had pleaded guilty to all three counts and was sentenced to prison for two terms of one to fifteen years for sexual abuse of a child and a minimum mandatory term of fifteen years to life for sodomy on a child, all terms to run consecutively. He then appealed, asserting error by…