No. C7-82-1053.Supreme Court of Minnesota.
April 22, 1983.
Syllabus by the Court
District court was justified in staying imposition of sentence of criminal defendant.
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Appeal from District Court, Olmsted County; O. Russell Olson, Judge.
Hubert H. Humphrey III, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, DeWayne P. Mattson, County Atty., and Raymond F. Schmitz, Asst. County Atty., Rochester, for appellant.
Dunlap, Keith, Finseth, Berndt Sandberg and A.M. Keith, Rochester, for respondent.
Considered and decided by the court en banc without oral argument.
AMDAHL, Chief Justice.
This is an appeal by the state, pursuant to Minn.Stat. § 244.11 (1982), from a sentencing departure by the district court in the form of a stay of imposition of sentence in a case in which the Sentencing Guidelines recommend imposition and execution of sentence. This case is a companion case to State v. Hennessy, 328 N.W.2d 442 (Minn. 1983), where, on similar facts, we upheld a dispositional departure by the same judge with respect to defendant’s accomplice. That case controls, and we affirm.
Affirmed.
KELLEY, J., took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.
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