Gullickson cites a recent unpublished decision of this court in which the parties agreed about the presence of aggravating factors supporting a departure in a plea agreement but, at sentencing, the district court "did not provide any departure grounds" or "state that its sentence constituted a departure." State v. Barnard, No. A17-0116, 2017 WL 5559905, at *1 (Minn. App. Nov. 20, 2017), review denied (Minn. Jan. 24, 2018). This court reversed, stating, "Although we have no doubt that permissible departure grounds exist in this case, because the district court did not provide any departure grounds on the record at the time of sentencing
The facts of each of those cases are significantly different than this case. Appellant cites to State v. Barnard, No. A17-0116, 2017 WL 5559905, at *1, 3 (Minn. App. Nov. 20, 2017), review denied (Minn. Jan. 24, 2018). In Barnard, the district court did not provide any departure grounds on the record at the time of sentencing, and the only reference to the grounds for a departure had been recited at an earlier plea hearing and were not again referenced at sentencing
Barnard appealed the length of his sentence, and we reversed his sentence and remanded for imposition of a guideline sentence. State v. Barnard, A17-0116, 2017 WL 5559905, at *3 (Minn. App. Nov. 20, 2017), review denied (Minn. Jan. 24, 2018). On remand, the district court sentenced Barnard to consecutive 144-month prison terms for each count and increased his fines to $12,000 on each count.