People v. Haggitt

I dissent because a sentence of 14 years and 11 months to 15 years — a minimum sentence 99% of the maximum — is not an indeterminate sentence.

1 do not quarrel with my colleagues’ thesis that Haggitt and the defendants in the companion cases,1 all of whom were convicted of assaultive crimes, belong in jail. Nor is there any disagreement on my part with their strictures about plea bargaining; my thoughts about plea bargaining have already been set forth at considerable length.2

Nor is there any disagreement regarding the maximum term for which Haggitt and the other defendants should be jailed —…