Tucker v. State

OPINION

STRAS, Justice.

Appellant Clemmie Howard Tucker pleaded guilty to second-degree unintentional felony murder, Minn.Stat. § 609.19, subd. 2(1) (2010). Under the terms of the plea agreement, the district court sentenced Tucker to 225 months in prison. The sentence represented an upward dura-tional departure from the presumptive sentencing range of 128 to 180 months for a defendant convicted of second-degree unintentional murder with Tucker’s criminal history score. Tucker filed a petition for postconviction relief in which he claimed the sentencing court abused its discretion when it…