Gutermuth v. State

OPINION

CRONE, Judge.

Case Summary

In this belated appeal, Warren Guter-muth challenges his twenty-four-year aggregate sentence for three counts of class C felony child molesting. We affirm.

Issues

We restate the two issues Gutermuth presents as follows:

I. Whether he may challenge his sentence pursuant to Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296, 124 S.Ct. 2531, 159 L.Ed.2d 403 (2004); and

II. Whether the trial court properly sentenced him.

Facts and Procedural History

Between June and October 1995, Earl and Dorinda Riley and their three children lived with the eighty-one-year-old Guter-muth in his…