Case ID: ariz_168/html/0155-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "FELDMAN, Vice Chief Justice,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

812 P.2d 628
    STATE of Arizona, Appellee/Cross-Appellant, v. Kriss Landon BARGER, Appellant/Cross-Appellee.
    No. CR-90-0353-PR.
    Supreme Court of Arizona.
    May 23, 1991.
   ORDER

The Petition for Review came before the court for determination on May 21, 1991; on consideration,

IT IS ORDERED that the Petition for Review is denied.

FELDMAN, Vice Chief Justice,

voted to grant, giving the following reasons:

The mandatory sentencing scheme as applied in this case violates article 3 of the Arizona Constitution because, as noted by the trial judge (see 167 Ariz. 563, 569-570, 810 P.2d 191, 197, 198), it effectively vests the sentencing power in the prosecutor and deprives the judge of any discretion to sentence for a crime that is broadly described and can be committed with many graduations of culpability. See State v. Garcia, 141 Ariz. 97, 104-07, 685 P.2d 734, 741-44 (1984) (Feldman, J., dissenting).