State v. Sababu Hodari

OPINION

CARPENETI, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

Sababu 0. Hodari was convicted of two counts of sexual assault in the first degree and one count each of robbery in the first degree and assault in the second degree. The trial court sentenced him to a composite sentence of fifty-five years to serve. Hodari appealed his sentence as excessive and the court of appeals remanded his case to the trial court to impose a sentence not to exceed forty years to serve. 1 The state petitioned and we granted review. Because the trial court’s original sentence was not clearly mistaken, we reverse the court of…