State v. Clem

The District Attorney for the 39th Judicial Circuit filed this petition for a writ of mandamus requesting that this Court direct Judge James W. Woodroof to vacate his sentencing order of November 13, 2013, sentencing Austin Smith Clem for his rape convictions and to resentence Clem so that the sentences comply with statutory law. In September 2013, Clem was convicted of one count of first-degree rape and two counts of second-degree rape. Judge Woodroof sentenced Clem to 20 years in prison on the first-degree-rape conviction and ordered that the sentence be “split” so that Clem would serve 2…