State v. Lara

Summary

The Nebraska Supreme Court affirmed Lara’s convictions and sentences, holding that an investigator’s victim-impact letter requesting a harsher sentence did not establish a breach of the plea agreement. The court declined to adopt a categorical rule regarding whether law enforcement officers are agents bound by prosecutorial plea promises, instead treating agency and authority as fact questions, and found the record insufficient to prove such an agency relationship. The court also held that the within-range sentences were not an abuse of discretion.