Court Opinion

ID: 9762500
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 02:25:36.342497+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:35.062466
License: Public Domain

WINTERSHEIMER, Justice,
concurring.
I concur with the result achieved by the majority but wish to separately state my view that use of the term murder should be clarified by the General Assembly. Upon additional review, as a practical matter, I believe the legislature intended to consider murder to be divided between simply unag-gravated murder and aggravated capital murder. Common sense indicates that all murder is a violent crime. The law should be re-drafted to reflect the reality that unaggravated murder may be enhanced but aggravated capital murder which results in the imposition of the death penalty cannot be enhanced because it involves the ultimate penalty of death which cannot be enhanced.
GANT, J., joins in this concurring opinion.