Rutter v. People

. JUSTICE

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

{1 We granted certiorari to determine whether a court should consider legislative changes when conducting an abbreviated proportionality review of a habitual criminal *185sentence.1 The defendant, Jarrod Ralph Rutter, was convicted of two class' 2 felonies for manufacturing methamphetamine dnd possessing one or more chemicals with intent to manufacture methamphetamine, one class 4 - felony for possessing methamphetamine, and a petty offense for possessing drug paraphernalia, The court also adjudicated Rut-ter a habitual criminal because he had three…