State v. Russell
Annotate this CaseDefendant pleaded no contest to the charge of sexual assault of a child in the first degree. At the sentencing hearing, the district court stated that the offense carried a mandatory minimum of at least twenty years. The court proceeded to impose a sentence of forty to fifty years’ imprisonment. Defendant appealed, arguing that the district court erred by not properly advising him of the crime’s range of penalties before accepting his plea. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the district court incorrectly advised Defendant that the range of penalties was twenty years’ to life imprisonment, but the error was not prejudicial and did not affect the validity of Defendant’s plea.
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