State v. McDowell

BECTON, Judge.

A jury convicted defendant, Ernest James McDowell, Jr., of robbery with a dangerous weapon, first degree burglary, and two counts of second degree kidnapping. The judge sentenced defendant to the presumptive term of 14 years for the armed robbery offense, to the presumptive term of 15 years for the burglary conviction, and to the presumptive nine-year term for each of the two kidnapping offenses. The judge ordered that defendant serve the sentences consecutively, with the exception that one of the nine-year terms was to run concurrently with the first sentence he serves.…