Court Opinion

ID: 9604572
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 02:23:38.334002+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:13:00.015886
License: Public Domain

BRETT, Presiding Judge,
concurs in part, and dissents in part.
While I concur that the judgments and sentences should be affirmed, I would modify the sentences to make them run concurrently instead of consecutively as ordered by the trial court. The record reflects that the appellant had never before run afoul of the law. He had no juvenile record, notwithstanding the fact that he was certified to stand trial as an adult. Because of his young age, I believe justice will be better served if the sentences were to be made to run concurrently. The forty-five year sentence is the equivalent to a life sentence for an adult. Therefore, I dissent to the running of the sentences consecutively.