State v. Harbaugh

The issue presented to the Court in this case is whether the district court properly set aside the Harbaughs’ guilty pleas and dismissed the criminal actions against them. The respondents, Chris and Jolene Harbaugh (“the Harbaughs”), on being charged with several crimes involving marijuana entered into plea agreements with the State.

After a sentencing hearing in February of 1991, the court imposed sentences of two-to-five years. It then suspended the sentences and placed each defendant on probation for two years, a condition of which was that each Harbaugh serve sixty days in jail. The…