Court Opinion

ID: 9647324
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 13:32:08.780987+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:11:47.947617
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WIEAND, Judge:
I join Part I of the majority’s opinion and concur in vacating the separate sentence imposed for robbery. I concur in Part II solely because I am compelled to do so by the decision of the Supreme Court in Commonwealth v. Tarver, 493 Pa. 320, 426 A.2d 569 (1981). I am of the opinion, however, that Tarver should be reconsidered. In my best judgment, the crimes of robbery and murder committed by appellant in this case were distinct and discrete offenses; the former was not a necessary ingredient of the latter; and principles of double jeopardy do not prevent separate sentences for robbery and an intentional killing *332committed during the course thereof. See: McCampbell v. State, 421 So.2d 1072, 1074 (Fla.1982); Britt v. State, 453 So.2d 1154 (Fla.Dist. Ct.App.1984); Cobb v. State, 250 Ga. 1, 2, 295 S.E.2d 319, 320 (1982); People v. Gulliford, 86 Ill.App.3d 237, 244, 41 Ill.Dec. 596, 602, 407 N.E.2d 1094, 1100 (1980); State v. Close, 623 P.2d 940, 948-951 (Mont. 1981); Koza v. State, Nev., 681 P.2d 44, 50 (1984); State v. Martinez, 95 N.M. 421, 424-425, 622 P.2d 1041, 1044-1045 (1981); Fitzgerald v. Commonwealth, 223 Va. 615, 634-638, 292 S.E.2d 798, 809-811 (1982), cert. denied, 459 U.S. 1228, 103 S.Ct. 1235, 75 L.Ed.2d 469, reh. denied, 460 U.S. 1105, 103 S.Ct. 1809, 76 L.Ed.2d 371 (1983).