State v. Easton

DAVIS, Chief Justice:

Defendants below, George A. Easton and Kevin True, 1 appeal from sentencing orders entered September 11, 1997, by the Circuit Court of Hampshire County. Both defendants previously had been convicted of the felony offense of the willful creation, by a custodian, of an emergency situation for an incapacitated adult and misdemeanor battery, which crimes were committed when the defendants were called upon to restrain a patient residing in a personal care home where they were employed. As a result of these convictions, the circuit court sentenced each defendant to a term of…