State v. Casey

DURRANT, Justice.

11 The central issue presented in this appeal is whether the district court deprived MR., a victim of sexual abuse, of his constitutional and statutory right to be heard at defendant's change of plea hearing. At that hearing, defendant pleaded guilty to lewdness involving a child, a class A misdemean- or. He had previously been charged with aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a first degree felony, and had pleaded not guilty. The reduction in the charge was the result of a plea bargain negotiated between defendant and the State. Prior to the change of plea hearing, M.R.'s…