Court Opinion

ID: 9666678
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 01:25:08.318792+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:32.004802
License: Public Domain

FAULKNER, Justice
(concurring in part and dissenting in part).
I concur in the result reached by the majority. But, I am still of the opinion that the investigation should be made by a probation officer. He is the most logical person under our system of criminal justice to conduct the investigation. It is not the duty of a trial judge to make investigations. His duty is to judge. I do not believe the legislature intended that the trial judge act as judge, investigator, and probation officer.
The majority opinion opens.the gates for appeals which will be based on abuse of discretion on the subject of investigation of the youthful offender.