State v. Martinson

SIMONETT, Justice.

Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of four different charges — kidnapping, two counts of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, and one count of criminal sexual conduct in the third degree: Minn.Stat. §§ 609.25, subd. 1(2), 609.342(c, d), and 609.344(b) (1980) — all arising from a single-behavioral incident occurring on February 12, 1980. The judge who presided at the trial died after the trial but before sentencing. A different judge, having familiarized himself with the facts, sentenced defendant to 43 months in prison for one count of criminal…