Court Opinion

ID: 9886427
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-10-06 16:07:45.620902+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:49:04.973370
License: Public Domain

LEWIS, VICE PRESIDING JUDGE, CONCURRING IN PART AND DISSENTING IN PART:
  

   ¶ 1 While I agree with affirming Appellant's conviction in this matter, I dissent to remanding this matter for resentencing. The opinion concludes, "The prosecutor's flagrant misconduct so infected the sentencing stage of Bramlett's trial that it was rendered fundamentally unfair." Considering this fundamental violation of Appellant's rights, I would modify his sentence to a life sentence.
  

   ¶ 2 As pointed out by the Appellant's counsel in his brief, until this Court reverses or modifies a sentence, prosecutors will see little incentive to change their ways. If the intention of remanding the matter for resentencing is to condemn the prosecutor's misconduct, it is my humble opinion that the better course would be to modify his sentence to life.