State v. Martinez

HUNTLEY, Justice.

By this appeal we are asked to review a decision of the Court of Appeals which, while affirming defendants’ convictions of guilty for rape, lewd conduct with a minor, aggravated battery and second degree kidnapping, held that the district court had abused its discretion in imposing sentences.

We granted the state’s petition for review pursuant to I.A.R. 118 to review the sole issue of whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the trial court had abused its discretion. The Court of Appeals reduced the fixed term sentences totaling fifty years to sentences which would…