Court Opinion

ID: 6940961
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 01:03:16.124242+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:07:41.583898
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De MUNIZ, J.,
concurring.
I agree with the majority, but write separately to point out the problem this case presents that is left unresolved by the Supreme Court’s opinion in State v. Morgan, 316 Or 553, 856 P2d 612 (1993).
In our opinion in Morgan, 116 Or App 338, 842 P2d 406 (1992), we held that the 10-year minimum term under ORS 163.115(3)(b) and the authorized 15-year additional term under ORS 163.115(3)(c) had been impliedly repealed by the sentencing guidelines. Part of our reasoning was that those terms could not be the “determinate” sentences that *434the guidelines require if the Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision can set them aside under ORS 163.115(3)(d):
“The minimum term set forth in paragraph (b) or (c) of this subsection may be set aside by a unanimous vote of the State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision.”
The Supreme Court rejected our holding that ORS 163.115(3) had been impliedly repealed and held that the sentences under subsections (3)(b) and (c) are “determinate” sentences within the meaning of ORS 137.637. However, the court did not explain the effect of ORS 163.115(3)(d) on those determinate terms. It also did not explain the conflict between that subsection and the restriction on the Board’s authority to authorize parole for offenders who committed crimes after November 1, 1989. Or Laws 1989, ch 790, § 28.1
The judgment here sentences defendant to a “minimum-mandatory term of twenty (20) years.” Presumably, 10 of those years are pursuant to ORS 163.115(3) (a) and 10 pursuant to ORS 163.115(3)(b). Whether the Board can act on that determinate 20-year term and at what point are questions that the Supreme Court’s opinion appears to leave unanswered.

 That section has not been codified. It is found following ORS 144.110 and provides:
“The provisions of ORS 144.110, 144.120, 144.122, 144.125, 144.130, 144.135, 144.185, 144.223, 144.245, 144.270 and 144.305 apply only to offenders convicted of a crime committed prior to November 1, 1989, and to offenders convicted of aggravated murder regardless of the date of the crime.”