Greene v. State

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

Frederick Greene appeals his conviction for kidnapping, a class A felony, Ind.Code § 35-42-8-2(a)(d) (Burns 1985 Repl). The trial court sentenced him to a thirty-year term to run consecutively to his previous sentence on unrelated charges.

Greene's most recent conviction arose from an uprising in the administrative segregation and detention unit of Michigan City prison. The trouble began in mid morning when Greene and three other inmates rushed inside a guard office in the administrative segregation unit as a guard opened the gate for a porter. Greene was the first…