State v. Conger

OPINION

PETERSON, Judge.

Appellant Kenneth Conrad Conger, Jr. pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting second-degree intentional murder and two counts of aiding and abetting second-degree unintentional murder. The district court sentenced appellant on the intentional-murder count to a 420-month prison term, which is a 114-month upward durational departure from the presumptive sentence of 306 months. Appellant chal lenged his sentence in an appeal to this court, arguing that the durational departure was an abuse of the district court’s discretion because appellant’s offense did not…