Coulter v. Maass

The state appeals from a post-conviction judgment that vacated and set aside petitioner’s sentence and remanded him to the Klamath County Circuit Court for resentencing.

At the time of petitioner’s initial sentencing in 1979 for the crime of robbery in the first degree, the trial court found him to be a dangerous offender. The court then attempted to sentence him to the maximum term of imprisonment allowed by law: 20 years with a 10-year minimum on the robbery conviction and 10 years with a five-year minimum as a dangerous offender, the sentences to run consecutively. That sentence was set…