State v. Seward
Annotate this CaseDefendant pleaded guilty to one count of rape and one count of aggravated criminal sodomy for acts committed against his stepdaughter. The district court sentenced Defendant to concurrent hard twenty-five life sentences under Jessica's Law and to lifetime postrelease supervision. Defendant appealed his sentences. The Supreme Court affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded, holding (1) Defendant's Jessica's Law hard twenty-five life sentences for rape and aggravated indecent liberties were not disproportionate to his crime; but (2) Defendant was entitled to vacation of the postrelease supervision term ordered by the district judge, as this portion of Defendant's sentence was illegal.
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