Court Opinion

ID: 9739780
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 20:20:42.729938+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:13.860194
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SABERS, Justice
(concurring in part and dissenting in part).
Based on my writing in Wilcox I and Wilcox v. Leapley, 488 N.W.2d 654, 660-61 (S.D.1992) (Wilcox II), I would reverse and remand to the trial court to vacate one of the homicide convictions and one of the three burglary convictions because there was only one death and two burglaries.
For all of the reasons stated in my prior writings, it is simply wrong and improper to permit these “surplus” convictions to stand. Double convictions for single events are “improper” under Wilcox II and should be vacated before resentencing.