Court Opinion

ID: 9730276
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 15:06:56.701307+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:05.379875
License: Public Domain

SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, JÍ
(concurring). This case presents a very unusual fact situation. Under the circumstances of this case, the majority opinion concludes that the circuit could “modify” probation to imprisonment.
The primary condition of probation in this case was the defendant’s admission to the Mendota Mental Health Institute. Indeed I view the circuit court’s order in this case as, in effect, being conditioned on the defendant’s admission to the Institute. Since it was impossible for this *570condition to be satisfied, the imposition of probation was really a nullity and the circuit court could impose sentence without violating the defendant’s constitutional rights.