State v. Dean

The defendant in this case, Ray Edward Dean, was charged with two counts of attempted murder, arson and violation of a domestic abuse order. Following his conviction on a guilty plea and sentence, he moved for a sentence modification which was denied. In this appeal, he contests the denial of sentence reduction. We affirm.

The charges against defendant all arose out of the same incident. Defendant set fire to a house during the night while it was occupied by his estranged wife, his son and his wife’s mother. The fire was started by two Molotov cocktails. A human tragedy was averted when a…