State v. Schaefer

Opinion of the Court by

WATANABE, Presiding J.

In these consolidated appeals from judgments entered by the District Court of the Fifth Circuit 1 (the district court) on October 1, 2004, Defendants-Appellants April Esther Schaefer (April), also known as April Ester Paiva, and Steven Schaefer (Steven) (collectively, Appellants) challenge, on several grounds, the sentences imposed against them following their convictions for nineteen misdemeanor offenses.

Since the record indicates that the district court failed to personally afford Steven and April an opportunity to make a statement prior to…