State v. Patch

YETKA, Justice.

Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of two counts of kidnapping, Minn.Stat. § 609.25, subd. 1(2, 3) (1982), and one count of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, Minn.Stat. § 609.342(c) (1982). The trial court sentenced defendant to concurrent prison terms of 240 months for the sex offense and one of the kidnapping convictions. The presumptive sentence for each of these two severity level VIII offenses by a person with defendant’s criminal history score of two is 65 (60-70) months in prison. Issues raised by the state public defender in the brief on…