State v. Braun

GARDEBRING, Justice.

We granted review in this casé for the limited purpose of modifying the sentence of defendant, Thomas W. Braun, to that originally imposed by the trial court.

In 1983 defendant pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal sexual conduct in the second degree. The trial court, without having to give reasons therefor, could have sentenced defendant to consecutive 21-month prison terms — that is, an aggregate term of 42 months. Or the trial court, using the so-called Hernandez method 1 of computing defendant’s criminal history score for the second offense, was free to sentence…