Lopez v. People

Decided 2005-06-27

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Justice COATS, concurring in the judgment only. Although the majority affirms the defendant’s 12-year sentence in this case, it does so only by eviscerating the presumptive sentencing regime under which we have operated for more than a quarter century. Upholding the facial validity of a statute is of little consolation if all but a sliver of its authorized applications are declared unconstitutional. Today’…

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