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- Title: State Idaho v. Dale Eugene Lawrence
- Author : Supreme Court Of Idaho
- Release Date : January 23, 1977
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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On August 30, 1974, the defendant appellant Dale Eugene Lawrence pleaded guilty in the Third Judicial District Court in Canyon County to the forgery of a twenty dollar check. At that time the court accepted his plea, but postponed entering judgment and sentencing in order for the defendant to voluntarily commit himself to State Hospital North for alcohol treatment. Approximately a year later, on August 20, 1975, in the Sixth Judicial District Court in Bannock County, the defendant pleaded guilty to rape. At that time the court accepted his plea, entered judgment and sentenced the defendant to the Idaho State Penitentiary for an indeterminate term not to exceed twelve years. See State v. Lawrence, 97 Idaho 775, 554 P.2d 953 (1976). While serving his sentence for rape, the defendant appeared again in the Third Judicial District Court on April 9, 1976, for sentencing on the forgery charge. The court adJudged the defendant guilty of forgery and sentenced him to five years in the Idaho State Penitentiary, the sentence to run consecutively to the sentence for rape. The defendant appeals from the imposition of the consecutive sentence for forgery. The defendant bases his argument on I.C. § 18-308, as amended in 1972, which reads: