Court Opinion

ID: 9615668
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 04:39:34.149631+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:03:49.982303
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FELDMAN, Justice,
dissenting,
I dissent from the result reached by the court. My views on the unconstitutionality of A.R.S. § 13-604.01 are set forth in my dissent in State v. Garcia, 141 Ariz. 97, 685 P.2d 734 (1984) and State v. McNair, 141 Ariz. 475, 687 P.2d 1230 (1984). In addition, in the case at bench the trial judge who heard all the facts and circumstances surrounding the crime of which defendant was convicted, believed the imposition of a mandatory life sentence without possibility of parole for twenty-five years *514was so excessive as to violate the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In my view, therefore, the statute is both unconstitutional on its face and unconstitutionally applied in the case at bench. I would affirm the sentence imposed by the trial judge.