State v. Misquadace

OPINION

BLATZ, Chief Justice.

Respondent Keith Edward Misquadace was charged with multiple crimes and entered a plea to four offenses in exchange for the state’s agreement to a total combined sentence of 266 months, which represented three upward disposi-tional departures and three upward dura-tional departures. On the sentences for three of the offenses, the district court departed from the guidelines sentence “pursuant to the plea agreement” without stating any other reason for the departures. On appeal, Misquadace argued that the departures on two of these sentences were not authorized under…