State v. Schaeffer
Annotate this CaseDefendant pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated robbery, and a weapons violation when he was seventeen. The district court judge sentenced Defendant to life in prison on each of the first two counts, fifteen years to life on the third count, and five years on the fourth count, with all of the sentences to run consecutively. Defendant appealed his sentences. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) Defendant's claim that his sentences were the products of judicial bias, prejudice, or corrupt motive failed on appeal; and (2) the district court judge did not err by considering the results of Defendant's psychological examination during sentencing, and the judge's consideration of statements Defendant made during the examination without having been given Miranda warnings beforehand was not error, as Miranda warnings were unnecessary in this case.
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