State v. Lute

BURNETT, Judge.

While seventeen years of age, Dan Lute was charged as an adult with the crime of *907forcible rape. A jury found him guilty. He received an indeterminate life sentence. On appeal, he raises four principal issues: (1) whether the statutes under which he was charged as an adult violated his constitutional rights to due process and equal protection; (2) whether testimony regarding Lute’s conduct at trial should have evoked a declaration of mistrial; (3) whether the evidence was sufficient to support the jury’s verdict; and (4) whether the indeterminate life sentence represented an…