Man sentenced 30 years to life after jury finds him guilty of raping child for years

POCATELLO — A 29-year-old man has been sentenced aft being convicted of aggregate felony activity crimes pursuing a assemblage trial.

District Judge Javier Gabiola sentenced Kwentin Miller to a minimum of 30 years and a maximum of life successful situation for six felony activity crimes. Gabiola besides ordered a 50-year no-contact bid for nan victim.

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Miller initially pleaded not blameworthy to 4 counts of lewd behaviour pinch a insignificant nether nan property of 16 and 2 counts of rape. A assemblage later recovered him blameworthy connected each counts aft a two-week trial.

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Miller is now successful custody astatine nan Idaho Department of Correction successful Kuna. He will beryllium eligible for parole connected March 27, 2054.

Sentencing

There were nary unfortunate effect statements arsenic Miller was sentenced connected Aug. 1. Defense lawyer Justin Oleson pleaded to nan tribunal to proceed nan sentencing for nan 2nd time, claiming that nan pre-sentence investigation, constabulary reports, sentencing recommendations, polygraph results, and unfortunate testimonials are false.

“There’s a bunch of worldly that we don’t judge is existent and correct,” said Oleson.

Gabiola denied nan request, stating that if location were issues pinch nan case, Oleson should person provided a “factual basis” for his allegations.

Oleson past recommended probation and a withheld judgment, arguing that his customer has nary erstwhile criminal history and insinuating that nan assemblage convicted him unfairly owed to nan quality of nan charges.

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“He understands that he was convicted by a jury, we were here, we heard nan evidence. The assemblage made their decision,” said Oleson. “How galore times person we had passim existent caller history, group that were wrongfully convicted and past came backmost years and decades later, because location was existent DNA evidence, they came backmost and acquitted?”

Arguing that DNA grounds was not allowed into nan trial, Oleson claimed nan unfortunate lied astir nan allegations and location were nary exams done to beryllium Miller assaulted her.

“There is nary beingness grounds of immoderate type,” said Oleson. “She ne'er went to nan doctor, ne'er made immoderate complaints astir immoderate of this. This lawsuit is strictly (the victim’s) statements to nan jury, and her galore statements to nan interviewers that were played to nan jury. That’s nan grounds to convict.”

Oleson insinuated that if Miller had committed nan crime, he would person admitted to it for a lesser sentence.

“Frankly your honor, if he wanted to admit to fault, we could’ve done this successful nan original 2 charges, and he could’ve been connected retained jurisdiction,” said Oleson. “But he’s consistently maintained his innocence.”

Gabiola past stopped Oleson, telling him they would not retry nan lawsuit and asking him to re-steer his statement to nan sentencing recommendation.

“I’m going to springiness you leeway present successful your argument, but I conscionable want to be aware you, we’re not retrying this case,” said Gabiola. “We’re not present successful beforehand of a jury, we’re present for sentencing.”

Miller past said to nan court, apologizing to those affected by nan case.

“Throughout this full process, it’s been difficult connected everyone straight and indirectly involved, from myself to nan unfortunate and everyone’s family and friends,” said Miller. “I do not declare to afloat understand what they person been through, but I consciousness their symptom successful their letters to nan court. And for that, I’m sorry.”

He continued, asking nan judge for leniency owed to his deficiency of a erstwhile criminal record.

“I’m assured successful my expertise to win successful curen and successful my community,” said Miller. “On that basis, I inquire for leniency from nan tribunal and nan chance to show I americium not a consequence to nan organization that I unrecorded in.”

Special charismatic Daniel Dinger, pinch nan Ada County Prosecutor’s Office, based on for a minimum of 25 years and a maximum of life successful situation for Miller, on pinch a 50-year no-contact bid for nan unfortunate and her family members.

Dinger rejected Oleson’s insinuations that prosecutors wanted Miller to spell to jailhouse for maintaining his innocence and clarified that Miller was recovered blameworthy by a assemblage of his peers.

“We’re not asking nan tribunal to nonstop him to situation because he took nan lawsuit to trial,” said Dinger. “We’re asking nan tribunal to nonstop him to situation because he was recovered blameworthy of, and he did successful fact, maltreatment her for years and years and years, successful a number of very superior ways.”

Dinger based on that nan assemblage took nan basal clip to deliberate complete nan facts of nan lawsuit and weighed their determination connected nan evidence, disagreeing pinch Oleson that nan assemblage did not do their jobs correctly.

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“There’s surely perfectly nary logic to judge aliases judge (Oleson’s) connection that nan assemblage decided this lawsuit based solely connected nan allegations aft a mates of days,” said Dinger. “This is simply a assemblage that took nan clip to perceive to nan evidence, to measurement nan evidence, and they came to a verdict of guilty, not because they didn’t for illustration nan allegations, but because nan impervious beyond a reasonable uncertainty was there.”

Dinger continued, offering examples of Miller’s maltreatment – specifically creating scenarios wherever he had uncontrolled entree to nan young victim.

“He utilized coercion. He utilized manipulation erstwhile necessary. He utilized anger, violence, unit to execute his desires,” said Dinger. “This is personification who engaged successful semipermanent maltreatment pinch a criminal mentality.”

Gabiola past explained his logic for his ruling, telling Miller that he was convicted connected a superior complaint and committed a crime that would impact nan unfortunate forever.

“The facts here, Mr. Miller, which nan assemblage convicted you connected were that you did sexually maltreatment (the victim) from nan clip she was 9 years aged to nan clip she was 14,” said Gabiola. “You groomed her, gained her trust, and you engaged successful reprehensible behavior. You blamed her for what happened and did not return accountability for it.”