Court Opinion

ID: 9776139
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 19:19:40.113495+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:34.736212
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WOMACK, Judge,
dissenting.
I think the proper analysis is the one Judge Keller calls the second formulation of the “holistic approach,” ante at 408 (slip op. at 2). All a juror need be able to do is to be open to assessing a minimum punishment for some form of aggravated robbery, and a maximum punishment for some form of aggravated robbery. This I believe to be consistent with the wide ranges of punishment attached to offenses in the Penal Code, and to the legislative directive that the Code be *415construed “to prescribe penalties that are proportionate to the seriousness of offenses and that permit recognition of differences in rehabilitation possibilities among individual offenders.” Penal Code § 1.02(3). I would affirm the judgment below.