State v. Stanfield

BURNETT, Judge.

We are asked to decide whether a district judge should have reduced an indeterminate seven-year sentence imposed for lewd conduct. The question is presented by David Stanfield, who stands convicted upon his plea of guilty to a charge of lewd conduct with his seven-year-old daughter. After the time to appeal the judgment had elapsed, but within the time allowed by I.C.R. 35, Stanfield filed a motion seeking reduction of his sentence. He requested that the sentence be changed to probation so he could be released from prison and could participate in a community-based mental health…