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(reviewing de novo whether a sentence conforms to the requirements of a statute).

(sentence authorized by law); (section 609.04, subdivision 1).

“A defendant’ s criminal-history score is calculated, in part, by allotting ‘points’ for each of a defendant’s prior convictions for which a felony sentence was imposed.” d 514, 521 (Minn. 2009).

isonment in excess of one year under the law under which the witness was convicted, and the court determines that the probative value of admitting this evidence outweighs its prejudicial effect.” “Evidence of a defendant’s prior felony convictions may be admitted if ‘the court determines that the probative value of admitting this evidence outweighs its prejudicial effect.’” (quoting Minn. R. Evid.

1 (2014): “if a person’s conduct constitutes more than one offense under the laws of this state, the person may be punished for only one of the offenses and a conviction or acquittal of any one of them is a bar to prosecution for any other of them.” This statute “prohibits the imposition of multiple sentences for offenses committed as part of a single behavioral incident.”

d 514, 518 (Minn. 2009).

S (whether sentence conforms to sentencing guidelines); State v. Scovel , (interpretation of sentencing guidelines).

“The legislature has the exclusive authority to define crimes and offenses and the range of the sentences or punishments for their violation.” Minn. Stat. § 609.095(a) (2022).

Under the Hernandez method of sentencing, if “a defendant is sentenced for multiple offenses on the same day, a conviction for which the defendant is first sentenced is added to his or her criminal-history score for another offense for which he or she is also sentenced.” (allowing a district court to increase a defendant’s criminal-history score when sentencing multiple offenses on the same day if certain conditions are met).

5; (listing this and other exceptions to Minn. Stat. § 609.035, subd.

-22 (Minn. 2009) (explaining the Hernandez method as “when a defendant is sentenced for multiple offenses on the same day, a conviction for which the defendant is first sentenced is added to his or her criminal history score for another offense for which he or she is also sentenced” and stating that the method