Court Opinion

ID: 9793621
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 02:50:42.590699+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:06:14.657294
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BURKE, Justice,
dissenting in part.
In my opinion, Snyder’s five-year sentence was neither excessive1 nor based *236upon an improper consideration of the need for community condemnation.2 Thus, I would affirm the superior court’s judgment in all respects.

. Justice Matthews, joined by Justice Connor, would hold that Snyder’s sentence was excessive because the drug involved was marijuana. This view, I believe, ignores both the magnitude and commercial nature of the transaction, as well as the extent of the sentence authorized by the legislature.

. The Chief Justice, joined by Justice Rabinow-itz, while apparently not convinced that the sentence was clearly excessive, feel that resen-tencing is necessary because they are “not certain . . . that the trial court would have imposed the 5-year period of incarceration if the goal of community condemnation of the offender had not been improperly considered.” In reaching that conclusion, I believe they have taken Judge Singleton’s remarks, concerning community condemnation, entirely out of context. Overall, I think the record reflects that Judge Singleton gave careful and proper consideration to all of the appropriate goals of sentencing.