Morgan v. State

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

Lisa Morgan has appealed her sentence for dealing methamphetamine on a variety of grounds, including an adequately preserved claim under Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296, 124 S.Ct. 2531, 159 L.Ed.2d 408 (2004). Her appeal produces three conclusions about post-Blakely sentencing under our then existing code: 1) aggrava-tors that may be found by a judge alone must still be weighed to determine whether they warrant sentence enhancement; 2) sentence enhancements may rest upon facts acknowledged by the defendant; and 3) observations a court makes about such factors may…