State v. Wenkai Li

SCHWARTZMAN, Judge.

Wenkai Li pled guilty to two counts of second degree murder. The court imposed a unified life sentence with twenty-five years fixed for the murder of Ning Li and a unified life sentence with forty years fixed' for the murder of Xia Ge. The sentences are to run consecutively. Li appeals, asserting that the sentences are excessive and that the district court made several errors in the sentencing process. We affirm.

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FACTS AND PROCEDURE

In 1995, Wenkai Li was a twenty-five-year-old graduate student studying metallurgical engineering at the University of Idaho. Ning Li 1 and. his…