People v. Warren

The defendant pled guilty to two counts of first-degree sexual assault, a class 2 felony carrying a term of imprisonment of not less than ten nor more than fifty years, 1 and admitted to the use of a deadly weapon during the assaults, thereby subjecting himself to the mandatory sentencing pro visions for crimes of violence. 2 He received concurrent sentences of eighteen to thirty years to the Colorado State Penitentiary and he challenges the sentences as excessive. He also claims entitlement to re-sentencing under the presumptive sentencing provisions of the 1977 version of House Bill 1589. 3…