State of Minnesota v. Carl Lee Nodes

OPINION

LILLEHAUG, Justice.

Appellant Carl Lee Nodes pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal sexual conduct arising from separate behavioral incidents with separate victims. At Nodes’s sentencing hearing, the district court adjudicated Nodes guilty of both charges but held that Nodes was not subject to lifetime conditional release under Minn.Stat. § 609.3455, subd. 7(b) (2014), because the two convictions were entered at the same hearing. The State appealed, arguing that a “prior sex offense conviction,” as defined by Minn.Stat. § 609.3455, subd. 1(g) (2014), includes a conviction arising from…