State v. Hastings

¶1 Dan Eugene Hastings appeals from the judgment and sentence entered by the Thirteenth Judicial District Court, Yellowstone County, upon his guilty plea to the felony offense of failure to register as a sexual offender. We reverse and remand.

¶2 The restated issue on appeal is whether the District Court erred by denying Hastings’ motion to dismiss.

BACKGROUND

¶3 In 1998, the youth court of the Seventh Judicial District Court, *3Dawson. County, adjudicated then-16-year-old Hastings as a delinquent youth upon Hastings’ admissions that he had committed acts which, if committed by an adult, would…