State v. Johnson

This is an appeal by the state from the imposition by the trial court of a modified sentence mandated by the sentence review division. Because we find in this case that the sentence review division exceeded its authority in promulgating a rule concerning the propriety of consecutive sentences, we find error, set aside the judgment, and remand to the sentence review division for further proceedings.

On January 16, 1979, the defendant was convicted after a jury trial on a two-count information of, on the *473first count, first degree robbery and, on the second count, conspiracy to commit robbery.1…