Court Opinion

ID: 9884148
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-10-06 02:40:11.927929+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:48:35.966127
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HANSON, Justice
(concurring in part, dissenting in part).
Although I concur in the affirmance of Welch’s conviction for attempted second-degree criminal sexual conduct, I dissent on the reversal of Welch’s conviction for kidnapping. I would not reach the issue of the sufficiency of the evidence to support the kidnapping conviction because Welch did not argue that issue on appeal and the state has been given no opportunity to address it.
Welch did challenge the imposition of consecutive sentences for kidnapping and attempted second-degree criminal sexual conduct. I would conclude that such sentencing unduly exaggerates the criminality of Welch’s conduct because the kidnapping conviction was based on minimal confinement and the sentence for criminal sexual conduct reflected an upward departure more than six times the presumptive sentence. I would modify Welch’s sentences of 150 months for attempted criminal sexual conduct and 45 months for kidnapping to run concurrently.