State v. I. Pehringer

Summary

The court held that the statutory protections for criminally convicted youth were not implemented in Pehringer's sentences, including the required periodic status reports and pre-age-21 sentence review. Although the district court properly found that the evidence at the existing hearing did not warrant sentence modification, the statutory failures deprived Pehringer of meaningful rehabilitative opportunities and sentence review. The court therefore affirmed the denial of immediate sentence modification, reversed in part, and remanded for two years of compliance with the statutory rehabilitation process followed by a meaningful review hearing.