The State Supreme Court has upheld Mark Allen Rogers’ conviction for Class A felony gross sexual imposition.

Rogers, 69, Minot, was sentenced in 2017 to 17 years, with five years suspended, after he pleaded guilty to sexually abusing an 8-year-old boy in 2014.

He appealed his conviction. The State Supreme Court found that there was no merit to Rogers’ argument that his defense attorney did not represent him adequately and that Judge Todd Cresap should not have dismissed his petition for post-conviction relief after an evidentiary hearing was held in March 2021.