Opinion ID: 888162
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Heading Rank: 6

Heading: White's Constitutional-Based Arguments

Text: ¶ 28 White claims that even if her 2007 sentence is legal under the applicable statutes, the sentence violates Article II, Sections 22 and 28 of the Montana Constitution. She notes that the maximum penalty for her 1993 burglary is ten years, see § 45-6-301(6)(b), MCA, but that she is still serving a sentence related to that offense more than ten years later. She claims that it is her consumption of alcohol, rather than any criminal proclivities, that has been the impetus for the previous revocations. She asserts, without any analysis, that any further punishment for a fifteen-year-old theft crime is cruel and unusual and does not serve any reformative purpose. ¶ 29 We conclude that White's argument in this connection is too undeveloped. The two-paragraph analysis in her opening brief and the one-paragraph analysis in her reply brief (which essentially reiterates the points made in her opening brief) do not contain any application of specific constitutional rules to the facts of this case. Nor do they contain any citation to authority standing for the proposition she asserts. It is well-established that it is not this Court's job to conduct legal research on a party's behalf or to develop legal analysis that may lend support to the position the party advances. See State v. Zakovi, 2005 MT 91, ¶ 28, 326 Mont. 475, ¶ 28, 110 P.3d 469, ¶ 28; State v. Gomez, 2007 MT 111, ¶ 33, 337 Mont. 219, ¶ 33, 158 P.3d 442, ¶ 33. Accordingly, we will not address White's constitutional-based contentions any further.