Court Opinion

ID: 9680125
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 07:21:03.924076+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:18:54.309643
License: Public Domain

ROBERTS, Judge
(concurring).
I concur in the foregoing opinion simply for the purpose of stating explicitly what I believe the Court is saying implicitly. In a case such as this one, where the second judge who is imposing sentence was aware of the proceedings incident to the first sentence, there is a danger of retaliation against a defendant who has successfully attacked his first conviction and sentence. I would expressly hold, therefore, that affirmative reasons based on objective conduct on the part of a defendant since imposition of his first sentence must accompany the imposition of a higher sentence by the second judge. This is consistent with the reasoning applied in Chaffin v. Stynchcombe, 412 U.S. 17, 93 S.Ct. 1977, 36 L.Ed. 2d 714 to imposition of a higher sentence by a jury aware of a defendant’s first trial and sentence.