Court Opinion

ID: 9791938
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 02:20:41.029808+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:39.477974
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GOLDEN, Justice,
dissenting.
While I agree this case must be remanded, I respectfully dissent from the court’s holding. I believe that Simonds’ sentence for burglary must run concurrently with his sentence for interfering with a police officer. The Pearce due process dictates are irrelevant in this instance because our remand for resentencing did not grant to the district court any authority to alter the concurrency of the sentences.
Simonds was sentenced to life imprisonment on his conviction of aggravated burglary and the finding that he was a habitual criminal. He was sentenced to not less than nine years nor more than ten years on his conviction of interfering with a peace officer. These sentences were to be served concurrently. Simonds v. State, 762 P.2d 1189, 1191 (Wyo.1988).
On appeal, this court reversed the aggravated burglary conviction and the finding that Simonds was a habitual criminal. This court sustained Simonds’ conviction as to the lesser-included offense of burglary and announced, “The case is remanded for re-sentencing on the crime of burglary.” Simonds, 762 P.2d at 1193. Since this court did not remand the case for resentencing on the crime of interfering with a peace officer and the feature of concurrency, the district court on remand had no jurisdiction to change that part of Simonds’ sentence.
I see no need to address the constitutional issue of double jeopardy.