Court Opinion

ID: 9624460
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 07:03:32.616208+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:05:46.981425
License: Public Domain

STRUCKMEYER, Vice Chief Justice,
specially concurring:
I concur in the disposition of this case. The facts do not support a charge of robbery. However, I wish to express my dissatisfaction with the rule of State v. Tinghitella, 108 Ariz. 1, 491 P.2d 834 (1971). In my opinion, the identical elements test adopted there does not properly enunciate when two offenses are distinguishable so as to permit -the imposition of cumulative punishment. It relieves a criminal of responsibility for some of his criminal acts. I reserve for a more appropriate time any discussion as to what the proper rule should be.