State v. Wade

Opinion

NORCOTT, J.

This appeal requires us to consider the applicability and constitutionality of the “aggregate package” theory of sentencing (aggregate package theory) to the resentencing of a defendant after the partial reversal of a multicount conviction on the basis of insufficient evidence. The defendant, Sidney Wade, appeals 1 from the judgment of the trial court resentencing him to a total effective sentence of twenty-three years imprisonment, on remand from the judgment of the Appellate Court, which had reversed, in part, his conviction of manslaughter in the first degree in violation…