Widner v. State

Melton, Justice.

Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the record shows that, on December 29, 2002, Joshua Ray Widner, who was eighteen years old at the time, admittedly engaged in acts of oral sex and sexual intercourse with a fourteen-year-old girl. Based on this conduct, Widner was convicted of two counts of aggravated child molestation and one count of statutory rape. Widner now appeals, contending, among other things, that his mandatory sentence of ten years without the possibility of parole for aggravated child molestation based on an act of sodomy constitutes cruel and…