North Dakota Supreme Court

State v. Cotton

November 5, 20252025 ND 191

Summary

The court held that consecutive misdemeanor sentences were lawful because the offenses were committed as part of different courses of conduct under the applicable statutory exception. The offenses involved different acts on different dates against different victims, and their similar methods and overlapping timeframes did not make them a single course of conduct. The court also declined to address a hypothetical future sentencing issue and affirmed the amended judgments.