State v. Gartland

AMDAHL, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from sentences imposed in district court for the deaths of two people resulting from defendant’s criminal negligence in driving his automobile. The issues are (1) whether multiple sentencing, using the so-called Hernandez method of computing a defendant’s criminal history score, was barred by Minn.Stat. § 609.035 (1982), and (2) whether the record fails to support the trial court’s dispositional departure in the form of execution of a presumptively stayed sentence. We affirm.

Defendant, who is 27 years old, has a history of drug and alcohol abuse. He…