Court Opinion

ID: 7509349
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 04:37:04.22222+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:23:23.358208
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BOYD, Justice,
dissenting.
I dissent from the Court’s refusal to provide review of the petitioner’s sentencing. I would treat the petition as a motion for habeas corpus relief. The trial court imposed a sentence of imprisonment on the petitioner, relying in part on conclusions drawn from factual matters contained in a presentence investigation. The petitioner took issue with the facts relied on, but had no opportunity to rebut, explain, or deny the information.
*1130I believe that the principles announced in Gardner v. Florida, 430 U.S. 349, 97 S.Ct. 1197, 51 L.Ed.2d 393 (1977), should apply to all sentencing proceedings involving the possibility of imposition of criminal punishment. Under the constitutional concepts of equal protection of the law, due process of law and the right to confront one’s accusers, I think that a writ of habeas corpus should be granted with an opportunity afforded to the petitioner to rebut the allegations made against him in the presentence investigation report. I further dissent for the reasons expressed in my dissenting opinion in Nelson v. State, 396 So.2d 1130 (1981).