State v. Litzinger

AMDAHL, Chief Justice.

We granted the petition of Jeff Litzinger to review a decision of the Court of Appeals affirming upward durational departures from three presumptive concurrent sentences obtained using the so-called Hernandez method of computing his criminal history score. The Court of Appeals recognized a new ground for an upward dura-tional departure from a presumptive sentence — specifically, that the defendant was involved in a “major crime spree.” State v. Litzinger, 391 N.W.2d 82 (Minn.App.1986). Holding that the record does not justify the departures, we reduce the three sentences…