State v. Aschan

WOLLE, Justice.

Defendant Mark Aschan contends that his substantive due process rights under the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution were violated when the State terminated a pretrial diversion agreement. Under the terms of that agreement, the State had placed defendant in a sexual abuse treatment program and agreed that if he satisfactorily completed the program he would be allowed to plead guilty to an aggravated misdemeanor rather than being prosecuted for the felony offense of sexual abuse in the second degree.' Subsequently, the prosecution terminated the agreement,…