Legal Opinion
Christopher Ray Counts
Wyoming Supreme Court
Decided November 26, 2014No. S-14-0131PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KITE, Justice.
[T1] After a jury found Christopher Ray Counts guilty of aggravated burglary and kidnapping and found him to be a habitual criminal, the district court sentenced him to two concurrent life sentences. 1 Mr. Counts appealed and this Court affirmed the convietion. Counts v. State, 2012 WY 70, 277 P.3d 94 (Wyo.2012) (Counts I ). Mr. Counts later filed a motion to correct an illegal sentence ' on the ground that one of the convictions relied upon for the habitual criminal determination and the life sentences occurred when he was only sixteen years old. He asserted consideration of…
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