Court Opinion

ID: 4713169
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-08-12 00:39:02.2253+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:07:16.334939
License: Public Domain

¶40 (concurring) — As a matter of logic and principle, I find it difficult to accept one’s constitutional right to a jury trial on sentencing factors may be abridged, without remedy, when the issue is first raised based on new case law in the context of a personal restraint petition. But a slim majority (5-4) of the United States Supreme Court in Schriro v. Summerlin, 542 U.S. 348, 124 S. Ct. 2519, 159 L. Ed. 2d 442 (2004), seems to say exactly that. What can I do but concur in the decision of our majority?
Sanders, J.