DeCoteau v. State

MESCHKE, Justice.

Alvin DeCoteau appeals the summary denial of post-conviction relief from consecutive maximum sentences of five years each on his plea agreement of guilty to two reduced felony charges. We affirm.

For December 1988 acts in Minot, the State charged DeCoteau with criminal mischief (a class A misdemeanor), theft of property (a class C felony), and robbery (a class B felony). At his February 1989 arraignment, the trial court informed DeCo-teau and his attorney that convictions on “these offenses can be treated separately,” so that he could be sentenced “for each individual one,…