State v. Rieger
Annotate this CaseDefendant pleaded guilty to one count of false reporting and was sentenced to probation for eighteen months. Defendant was directed to have no contact with her husband without the court's permission as a condition of probation. Defendant appealed her sentence. The Supreme Court (1) vacated the sentence in part, holding that the county court erred in prohibiting Defendant from having any contact with her husband, as the broad prohibition on Defendant's contact with her husband was an unreasonable infringement upon Defendant's fundamental rights arising from marriage; and (2) affirmed the sentence in all other respects. Remanded for resentencing to permit the county court either to remove the condition or to tailor it more narrowly to the factual circumstances of the case and the rehabilitative goals sought to be achieved.
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