State v. Wells

SAND, Justice.

On 12 May 1977 Mark Alan Wells entered a plea of guilty to the crime of murder and was later sentenced to a term of life imprisonment under the North Dakota dangerous special offender statute, § 12.1-32-09, North Dakota Century Code. Wells appealed the sentence attacking the constitutionality of the dangerous special offender statute. In a prior opinion on that appeal we upheld the constitutionality of § 12.1-32-09, NDCC, but remanded the case for resen-tencing because of lack of compliance with the notice provisions of the statute. On remand, Wells was again sentenced to a term…