Source: https://www.courts.maine.gov/opinions_orders/opinions/documents/00me14As.htm
Timestamp: 2019-04-19 10:24:42+00:00

Document:
Panel:	WATHEN, C.J., and CLIFFORD, RUDMAN, DANA, SAUFLEY, and CALKINS, JJ.
Majority: 	WATHEN, C.J., and CLIFFORD, RUDMAN, and  SAUFLEY, JJ.
Concurrence:	DANA and CALKINS, JJ.
Dissent:  		DANA and CALKINS, JJ.
their entirety.  We affirm the sentences.
sentenced to seven days in the county jail.
boys, in the age range of 10 to 14, for sexual activities.
years on each charge of unlawful sexual contact and sexual abuse of a minor.
declined to suspend any of the sentences.
consecutive five years for sexual abuse of a minor related to a second victim.
the sentences are, taken in their entirety, excessive.
what circumstances and conditions of probation, if any, should be ordered.
See State v. Bolduc, 638 A.2d 725, 727 (Me 1994).
coupled with the serious criminal history of the defendant."  17-A M.R.S.A.
for a Class A crime may be either 20 years or 40 years.
17-A M.R.S.A. § 1252-C(1), for misapplication of principle.  See State v.
A.2d 1292, 1295-96 (Me. 1993).
36 (Me. 1994); State v. Brooks, 634 A.2d 1265, 1267 (Me. 1993).
gross sexual assault can be committed.  We disagree.
[¶17]  We first address the court's application of 17-A M.R.S.A.
we discern no error in the application of 17-A M.R.S.A. § 1251(2)(A).
precipitous violence does not preclude a sentence in the upper tier.
consecutively to the 35-year sentence on the gross sexual assault sentence.
these sentences result in the 65-year term that Poulin will have to serve.
12; Prewara, 687 A.2d at 954.
circumstances.  See 17-A M.R.S.A. § 1256(2) (1983 & Supp. 1999).
consecutive sentences were necessary and appropriate.
final sentence lengths, we address each separately.
consequences awaiting him should he abuse more children.
sentencing Sweet to 40 years in prison.

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