Court Opinion

ID: 9868147
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-26 17:59:05.991706+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:45:41.759355
License: Public Domain

Painter, Presiding Judge,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
{¶ 126} Being a judge is never having to say you’ve seen everything. This case is evidence of the endless variety of human foibles.
{¶ 127} Perhaps some might consider the photographs art. Though I am not among that number, I recognize the right of free expression. Condon could not be punished for art — but he can be punished for treating corpses in the manner he did here. Thus, I concur with that, part of Judge Gorman’s learned opinion.
{¶ 128} The trial court should have released the prosecutor’s opinion letter— why keep it secret? But I agree that the result would not have changed.
{¶ 129} As to sentencing, I concur with the majority in all but one particular. The consecutive sentences cannot be justified on this record.
*668{¶ 130} Condon surely is not a threat to do this again. A prison sentence of any length would be sufficient to impress upon him the wrong-headedness of his behavior and to validate community outrage.
{¶ 131} Though I agree with the majority that this record can support a six-month sentence, there should be no consecutive sentences. A case that does not justify even the maximum sentence for any one count logically cannot support a consecutive sentence. The sentence should have been six months. More than that has already been served. Thus, I dissent as to the consecutive sentences only.