Court Opinion

ID: 9613033
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 04:13:40.126655+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:58:37.192964
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*167NEWMAN, J., Dissenting.
To forbid unequal sentences and at the same time permit unequal confinements accords too much deference, I believe, to the word “rehabilitation.” The discretion allowed appears to me to be almost unconfined and vagrant. (Cf. my dis. opns. in In re Eric J. (1979) 25 Cal.3d 522, 538 [159 Cal.Rptr. 317, 601 P.2d 549]; People v. Saffell (1979) 25 Cal.3d 223, 235 [157 Cal.Rptr. 897, 599 P.2d 92]; People v. Sage (1980) 26 Cal.3d 498, 511 [165 Cal.Rptr. 280, 611 P.2d 874].)