State v. Richardson

SIMONETT, Justice.

Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of charges of criminal sexual conduct in the first and third degrees, Minn. Stat. §§ 609.342(a) and 609.344(c) (1982), based on the same behavioral incident involving a single victim. The trial court sentenced defendant to 50 months in prison, which is the shortest term within the presumptive sentence range for criminal sexual conduct in the first degree (severity level VIII offense) by a person with defendant’s criminal history score (one). On this appeal from judgment of conviction and from an order denying a motion for a…