State v. Davilla

In 1991, when defendant was 16 years old, he killed a 22-year-old woman with a small, dull “Boy Scout knife” during an attempted rape. He pleaded guilty and was convicted as an adult of murder, first-degree burglary, and first-degree attempted rape, and originally received an indeterminate sentence of life imprisonment for the murder conviction. Over the past two decades, defendant’s murder conviction has been remanded for resentencing several times and, in this appeal, defendant challenges a judgment imposing his most recent sentence, an upward departure of 600 months’ imprisonment and…