Williams v. State

OPINION

LANSING, Judge.

Appellant Eugen Williams robbed a convenience store and was convicted by a jury of first-degree assault, Minn.Stat. §§ 609.-221, 609.11, 609.05 (1982), and two counts of aggravated robbery, §§ 609.245, 609.11, 609.05 (1982). On appeal he contends the trial court abused its discretion in sentencing him consecutively to three 54-month sentences and erred in maintaining the original sentence rather than imposing the reduced presumptive mandatory minimum sentence under Minn.Stat. § 609.11. We affirm.

FACTS

On April 22, 1982, Williams and an accomplice robbed the Short Stop…