Palmer v. State

ROBERTS, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. During February 2012, Richard Palmer went before the Jackson County Circuit Court and pled guilty to twelve counts of an eighteen-count indictment. Specifically, Palmer pled guilty to three counts of touching a child for lustful purposes, four counts of sexual battery of a child, and five counts of exploitation of a child. In exchange for his guilty plea, the prosecution dismissed the remaining six counts of sexual battery that Palmer faced. The circuit court sentenced Palmer to concurrent sentences that, when taken collectively, operate as thirty years in the…