State v. Boman

AMDAHL, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by Paul Walter Boman from an order of the Pennington County District Court denying his petition for re-sentencing according to the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines. He was convicted on February 4, 1980, of first-degree manslaughter, Minn.Stat. § 609.20(2) (1978), and received a maximum indeterminate 15-year prison term. The petition was filed pursuant to the recent amendment to Minn. Stat. § 590.01 (1980) authorizing the resen-tencing of persons convicted of offenses occurring before May 1, 1980, who can establish that their early release from sentence…