State v. Bolduc

I agree with the Court that Bolduc should be resentenced pursuant to the principles enunciated in State v. Hewey, 622 A.2d 1151 (Me.1993). On remand, the sentencing court will have the opportunity to articulate its reasons for selecting a basic sentence. I write separately, however, to state that, in my view, a vehicular manslaughter may justify a basic sentence in excess of twenty years. When the Legislature increased the maximum sentence for Class A offenses to forty years, see P.L.1987, ch. 808, codified at 17-A M.R.S.A. §§ 1252(2)(A), 1252-B (Supp.1993), it indicated that sentences in…