State v. Warren

The decision of the court was delivered by Nuss, C.J.:

**609 Cedric Warren challenges his resentencing after the original hard 50 life sentence for his premeditated first-degree murder conviction was held unconstitutional and vacated on appeal. On remand the district court imposed a hard 25 life sentence (lifetime sentence without the possibility of parole for 25 years) for that conviction and ran it consecutive to his sentences for his two on-grid crimes. For those crimes, the court also changed his two nonvacated sentences in length and sequence.

Warren asserts that our holding in State v.…