People v. Loris

Opinion by JUDGE ROMÁN

¶ 1 Defendant, Colleen Marie Loris, appeals her thirty-two-year sentence under the habitual criminal statute. We first conclude that her thirty-two-year sentence for possession with intent to distribute does not raise an inference of gross disproportionality.

¶ 2 We further conclude that the district court was required to apply the habitual criminal sentence multiplier to defendant's level 2 drug felony. Analyzing the sentencing scheme as a whole, the legislature has evinced an unmistakable intent to multiply the maximum of the presumptive range for certain drug felonies…