Court Opinion

ID: 9670163
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:16:11.878895+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:42:18.754624
License: Public Domain

FOSHEIM, Justice
(concurring specially).
I agree that this case must be reversed. The second option, which the trial court offered to defendant, and which he understandably accepted, should be nullified for the reasons expressed in the majority opinion.
In my opinion, however, the remand should simply direct that the trial court’s first option offered to defendant be adopted without further proceedings. That option, which reflected the observations of the trial court, was well within tolerances of discretion. We should, when possible, give effect to conclusions drawn with the benefit of that advantage. Had the trial court decided this case solely on the first option, the judgment would, in my opinion, have withstood any challenge for abuse of discretion.