Rosado v. State

This review involves a 1973 judgment of conviction of the plaintiff in error, Miguel Rosado, for sexual intercourse with a child in violation of sec. 944.10 (2), Stats., Rosado’s sentence to a prison term of fourteen years, and the trial court’s denial of Rosado’s motion to reduce that sentence.

We reject the complaints made by the plaintiff in error to the sentencing procedures employed by the trial court, but we find an abuse of discretion by the trial court in imposing the fourteen-year sentence and we reduce that sentence to- seven years.

Prior to the commission of the offense for which he…