Ervin Isom, Petitioner/cross-Respondent v. the People of the State of Colorado, Respondent/cross- — Márquez, J…

Summary

This dissent would hold that Colorado's habitual-child-sex-offender sentencing statute requires an indeterminate sentence with a minimum term of at least three times the presumptive-range maximum and imposes no cap on that minimum term. It reasons that the majority improperly reads the general sentencing statute to create a cap and thereby adds words the legislature did not enact. The dissent concludes that the forty-years-to-life sentence was lawful, although the court's controlling disposition is not stated in the supplied text.