Opinion ID: 885231
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Heading: Maximum Sentences to be Served Consecutively

Text: ¶ 73 Petitioner contends that the District Court violated the principles of inter and intra case proportionality when it sentenced him to the maximum allowable sentence for each conviction and ordered the sentences to run consecutively. The District Court sentenced Petitioner to 40 years for robbery, life imprisonment for aggravated kidnaping, and life imprisonment for deliberate homicide, with the sentences to run consecutively. ¶ 74 As stated above, we review sentences for legality only. Montoya, ¶ 15. The District Court did not exceed its statutory authority in sentencing Petitioner. Petitioner's sentences all fall within the applicable statutory parameters. See § 45-5-401(2), MCA (1987) (robbery punishable by up to a 40-year term of imprisonment); § 45-5-303(2), MCA (1987) (aggravated kidnaping punishable by death, life imprisonment, or up to 100 years imprisonment); § 45-5-102(2), MCA (1987) (deliberate murder punishable by death, life imprisonment, or up to 100 years imprisonment). Accordingly, we hold that the court lawfully sentenced Petitioner. To the extent Petitioner's complaints relate to the equity of his sentence, those complaints are properly addressed to the Sentence Review Division of this Court. See State v. Gordon, 1999 MT 169, ¶ 54, 295 Mont. 183, ¶ 54, 983 P.2d 377, ¶ 54. ¶ 75 Affirmed. J.A. TURNAGE, C.J., JAMES C. NELSON, and W. WILLIAM LEAPHART, JJ., concur.