Court Opinion

ID: 9703114
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 23:40:36.998245+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:12:17.872405
License: Public Domain

BECK, Judge,
concurring and dissenting:
I join the majority on all points save one. I do not agree that the contemporaneous statement of Judge Buckwalter provided inadequate reasons for sentencing the defendant *618to a period of incarceration beyond that recommended by the sentencing guidelines. Judge Buckwalter stated:
Number one, the defendant’s prior record indicates to me that he represents a real threat to society if he is out in society. Within five or — well, I guess it’s within about five or six months of his being released these crimes were committed. In my opinion he is definitely a threat to society. The nature of the crimes of rape and burglary regarding the young 19-year-old girl, Brenda Blaxland, were also such that the very nature of these crimes demands a sentence that is significant both as a deterrent and as a punishment. The rape represents the ultimate insult to a human being which was committed on this young lady and the burglary of her apartment in the nighttime, hiding there waiting for her to arrive, is just-well, it speaks for itself. It’s a horrendous crime in the Court’s opinion.
These reasons are applicable to the crimes of rape and burglary. I, therefore would not remand for sentencing on the burglary conviction.