State v. Branson

TROUT, Justice.

This ease presents the issue of whether the legislature’s enactment of a statute prohibiting withheld judgments in certain cases im*791properly encroaches upon the powers of the judiciary in violation of the Idaho Constitution.

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BACKGROUND

A female undercover police officer approached Danny Branson at the invitation of one of Branson’s friends and told him that she wanted to “party.” Branson sought a source through which to purchase some cocaine for that purpose and, after he was successful, sold some to the undercover officer. Branson was arrested the following evening and…