State v. Walker

LANSING, Judge.

We are called upon to review the reasonableness of the sentence imposed upon Phillip D. Walker for first degree murder, I.C. §§ 18-4001, -4003(d). The charges stemmed from the death of Walker’s two and one-half-year-old stepson after Walker had anal intercourse with the child. The death was caused by peritonitis resulting from lacerations in the child’s colon. Walker pleaded guilty pursuant to a plea agreement in which the State agreed not to seek the death penalty and to limit its sentencing recommendation to a unified life sentence with a minimum period of thirty years’…