State v. Hayes

OTIS, Justice.

Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of charges of burglary, criminal sexual conduct in the second degree, and two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, Minn.Stat. §§ 609.58, subd. 2(l)(b); and 609.222 (1980). The charges arose from defendant’s forced entry into a house, his armed sexual assault of a fourteen-year-old girl, and his armed assault of the girl’s father. Defendant was sentenced to concurrent terms of twenty years for burglary and five years for assault of the father. He was, not sentenced for assault of the girl.

There is no merit to defendant’s…