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- Title: Castle v. State
- Author : Supreme Court of Wyoming
- Release Date : January 30, 1992
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 51 KB
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Pursuant to a plea agreement, Richard Lee Castle, the appellant, pleaded guilty to an amended three-count information charging him with felony murder, aggravated kidnapping, and first degree sexual assault. The district court sentenced him to a life sentence on the felony murder, a life sentence on the aggravated kidnapping, and a term of forty-five to fifty years on the sexual assault, the sentences to be served consecutively. On appeal, Castle asserts that because these consecutive sentences prevent him from re-entering society, his reformation and rehabilitation cannot possibly occur. Therefore, he reasons, these sentences violate Article 1, Section 15 of the Wyoming Constitution, which reads: "The penal code shall be framed on the humane principles of reformation and prevention." As a proposed remedy for this alleged constitutional violation, Castle asks this court to modify his sentence so "that one or more of the sentences would run concurrently."