State v. Donahue

The opinion of the court was delivered by Biles, J.:

In 1974, Elton Donahue received a life sentence with the possibility of parole because of his convictions for aggravated kidnapping. In 2016, Donahue filed a motion to correct an illegal sentence. He claims his sentence of life imprisonment with a mandatory 15-year term violates the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution because he was only 16 years old when he committed the crimes. The district court summarily denied the motion. Donahue directly appeals to this court. We affirm because the motion is not the appropriate…