Court Opinion

ID: 9844683
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 03:06:42.691472+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:15:39.983285
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SILAK, J.,
concurring, and concurring in result part VIII. D.
I concur fully in the Court’s opinion, except that I concur in the result in Part VIII(D). In my view the requirement found in the current version of I.C. § 19-2827(c)(3), to consider “whether the sentence of death is excessive,” requires the same type of excessiveness analysis that the Court has performed in non-capital cases. See, e.g., State v. Babb, 125 Idaho 934, 940, 877 P.2d 905, 911 (1994); State v. Broadhead, 120 Idaho 141, 814 P.2d 401 (1991), overruled on other grounds, State v. Brown, 121 Idaho 385, 394, 825 P.2d 482, 491 (1992). Applying that analysis to the present case, I conclude that the sentence is not excessive.