State v. Korum

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Fairhurst, J.

—After Jacob Melvin Korum withdrew his guilty plea, the prosecuting attorney charged Korum with additional counts as promised during the plea bargaining process. The Court of Appeals dismissed the added charges for prosecutorial vindictiveness and dismissed Korum’s kidnapping charges as incidental to his robbery charges. We reverse the Court of Appeals and hold that Korum failed to prove that a presumption of prosecutorial vindictiveness arose in this case. We affirm the Court of Appeals’ dismissal of Korum’s kidnapping charges because the State failed to properly raise the…