State v. Greve

¶ 45. (dissenting). From time to time, this court needs to step back from the narrow disputes in a particular case to seek a broader perspective on the workings of our criminal justice *474system. The court did this recently in State v. Gallion, 2004 WI 42, 270 Wis. 2d 535, 678 N.W.2d 197, in which it underscored the vital need for sound discretion in sentencing in the wake of truth-in-sentencing legislation.

¶ 46. Truth-in-sentencing imposes new responsibilities on a circuit court. As a general rule, whenever a court sentences a person to imprisonment in a Wisconsin state prison, the court must…