State v. Williams
Annotate this CasePursuant to a plea agreement, Defendant pleaded guilty to one count of rape of a child and one count of sexual exploitation of a child. The district court sentenced Defendant to life imprisonment with a mandatory minimum term of twenty-five years for his rape of a child conviction and imposed lifetime postrelease supervision for both convictions. Defendant appealed the lifetime postrelease supervision portion of his sexual exploitation sentence. The Supreme Court (1) affirmed the sexual exploitation sentence, holding that the sentence did not violate the Eighth Amendment; and (2) vacated sua sponte the lifetime postrelease supervision portion of Defendant’s rape sentence, holding that the district court erred in imposing lifetime postrelease supervision for Defendant’s rape conviction as part of sentencing him to an off-grid indeterminate life sentence.
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