Court Opinion

ID: 9573953
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:00:55.246301+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:43:48.184240
License: Public Domain

*381Peterson, Justice
(concurring specially).
I concur in the majority opinion as consistent with our precedents, but acknowledge force in the dissenting opinion. The differences in the sentences which might result are probably not of great importance, however, for it is the Minnesota Corrections Authority, not the court, which has the dominant role in determining the duration of confinement which will be served under whatever sentence may be imposed. It is by no means certain that the Authority would require confinement even as long as that authorized under today’s holding, although the grave nature of the defendant’s offenses and the constraint under which the trial court will now resentenee him may well be considered by the Authority.