Court Opinion

ID: 9739587
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 20:18:00.354538+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:30:28.279280
License: Public Domain

DeBRULER, Justice,
concurring and dissenting.
I vote to affirm these convictions, but to remand to the sentencing judge for a clear and meaningful statement justifying the imposition of consecutive sentences. The law invests the sentencing judge with the authority to impose consecutive sentences, however in exercising this authority the court must give specific reasons for its actions. Brown v. State (1982), Ind., 442 N.E.2d 1109. The only basis offered by the judge on the record to support his determination of consecutive sentences is that there were "two separate crimes". In my view such statement is not sufficient to satisfy this requirement of specificity.
PRENTICE, J., concurs.