State v. Olivera

LANSING, Chief Judge.

In this appeal Michael Olivera challenges the unified twenty-five-year sentence with a fifteen-year minimum term of imprisonment that was imposed upon his plea of guilty to a charge of second degree kidnapping. We affirm.

In May 1995, when Olivera was seventeen years old, he was staying at a cabin in the Paddy Flats area of Valley County along with several other youths, Ryan Robertson, Chad Toney, Samantha Anglin, and Ean Barnett. Eighteen-year-old Jeffrey Towers was also with the group. On the night of May 24, 1995, all five of the young men left the cabin, apparently…