Court Opinion

ID: 9802627
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 14:43:28.679004+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:01:36.416498
License: Public Domain

GILBERTSON, Chief Justice
(concurring in result).
[¶ 24.] The Court’s analysis appropriately recognizes the State’s valid interest in deterring habitual offenders and properly applies the presumption of regularity to the facts of this case. However, I maintain my position in State v. Bilben, 2014 S.D. 24, 846 N.W.2d 336 and State v. Burkett, 2014 S.D. 38, 849 N.W.2d 624, that defendants should no longer be given the unrestricted power to collaterally attack the validity of predicate convictions used for sentence-enhancement purposes. Accordingly, I concur in the result.
[¶ 25.] SEVERSON, Justice, joins this special writing.