*1 Ap- argues that the Court of Trail Mountain applied Utah, Appellee, instead the six-
peals should have Plaintiff of STATE by Ann. provided Utah Code year limitation 78-12-23(2) upon any con- § action “[a]n
tract, liability upon obligation, founded an or MACE, Aaron G. Defendant Trail writing.” Specifically, instrument Appellant. language “by rea- Mountain asserts right title of the state to the son of the or No. 930509. applicability §in limits the same” 78-12-2 Supreme Court of Utah. statute to cases where the state sues property right or title to the real itself— July 1996. i.e., possession suits. adverse disagree. plain reading A of the stat- brought applies that it to actions ute reveals
by consequence of the state’s the state as right property
claim of to real or issues or If, property.
profits derived from real claims, the statute were limit-
Trail Mountain claims, possession language
ed to adverse profits would
“or the issues or thereof’ superfluous. “This court will not
rendered way a statute in such a as to render
construe meaningless parts viable and void.”
certain County, Lake
Nelson Salt case, In is this the Division
alleging that Trail Mountain withheld issues profits derived from leased school trust
lands, Division, agency, and the as a state
brought right suit virtue of its to receive profits. fits
those This lawsuit therefore 78-12-2, § express
within the terms of
consequently, uphold ruling Appeals applicability.
Court as to ruling Appeals af- Court part part,
firmed and reversed proceedings for further consistent
remand opinion.
with this
ZIMMERMAN, C.J., HOWE, RUSSON, JJ.,
DURHAM and concur. *2 degree Mace contends
both first felonies. defense, as codified Utah’s section 76-2-305 and other related sec- Code, violates state and tions of the Utah prohibitions against constitutional federal *3 reject cruel and unusual affirm his conviction Mace’s contentions and and sentence. 2, 1992, December Mace knocked on
On apartment the door of a woman’s to tell her tampering her car. that someone was with entering apartment, began After Mace tell the woman about car alarms and then asked to use her bathroom. After about ten minutes, Mace came out of the bathroom gloves holding wearing rubber and a knife tape. a roll of duet He threatened the and woman with the knife and tied her hands tape. behind her back with the He then took raped the woman into her bedroom and her. rape, After the Mace forced the woman into point her ear at knife and then drove her to her bank to have her withdraw for him. $100 sped The victim off her car after Mace left phone call. confess- the car to make police following day. ed to on the He was subsequently charged degree with four first assault, rape, aggravated ag- felonies: sexual robbery. gravated kidnaping, aggravated 27,1993, January Mace filed a notice of On rely his intent to on a defense of diminished capacity insanity, pursuant or to section 77- 7,1993, 14-3 of the Utah Code. On June he plea guilty of not entered each of later, four counts. One week he moved to plea guilty amend his to “not the alter- insanity” guilty native not reason of lengthy challenging, on due filed motion and cruel and unusual grounds, constitutionality Graham, Gen., Voros, Att’y Jan Frederic J.
Jr., Gen., codifying Att’y Cope, Utah’s defense. Asst. James M. Salt City, plaintiff. Lake July hearing At a on the motions on Gillett, clinical Dr. director Utah Fratto, Jr., Joseph City, C. Salt Lake unit, Hospital’s forensic testified defendant. ego dystonic Mace suffered from the form of compulsive paraphilia. doctor obsessive ZIMMERMAN, Chief Justice: explained that the disorder includes a com- pulsive, uncontrollable need to have excessive appeals Aaron G. Mace his conviction and intercourse, though rape aggravated robbery, patient even sentence for sexual ill, “try mentally making subject not want to do so. Patients all him does thus stop doing usually it kinds of means to but it statutes. up up until it
builds and builds becomes what subsequently The trial court sentenced impulse.” called an irresistible On cross- [is] Mace to two concurrent five-to-life terms and examination, Dr. testified that Mace Gillett qualified later that Mace found for the status “obviously “obviously had intent” knew guilty Accordingly, ill. [his forced sexual intercourse with the vic- court ordered Mace committed to the De- wrong,” but that Mace was unable tim] partment of Human Services for care and to conform his conduct to the law. until treatment his transfer to the De- Utah partment Corrections, pursuant to sections testimony, On the basis of Dr. Gillett’s 77-16a-203 and -204 of the Code. change plea trial court allowed Mace to his *4 guilty by insanity. to not reason of court, duly appealed Mace to this day, unsigned
next the trial court issued an (i) claiming plea properly the conditional entry in it minute which denied Mace’s con- right appeal reserved his to the constitution challenges specifying stitutional without the issues, though they al nondisposi- even were denial, reasons for the and directed the (ii) case, statutory tive of his Utah’s prosecution prepare to a formal order on the scheme violated federal pro and state due denial. requirements. parties’ cess Pursuant to the 19th, hearing July At a second on the trial stipulation, stayed briefing this court granted subsequent court motion to pending our resolution of two other cases ill,” plea “guilty mentally amend his to appeal. anticipated, holding then on As our right appeal conditioned on Mace’s (Utah Montoya, State v. 887 P.2d ruling court’s adverse on his constitutional 1994) an issue on a reserved condition — that ll(i) challenges, pursuant to rule of the Utah plea dispositive prose al need not be of the prosecu- Rules of Criminal Procedure.1 The fully disposes of Mace’s first issue cution — agreed drop tion the sexual assault and plea dictates that Mace’s conditional was kidnaping charges purposes for the proper. Similarly, opinion our in State v. Mace, plea agreement. attorney, his the Herrera, (Utah 1995), 363-68 prosecutor, judge signed and the trial each rejected process the identical due claims that plea agreement day. that same in his raised initial brief and thus de process challenge. feats Mace’s due 2nd, August On two weeks after Mace guilty plea, the conditional entered the trial decision, Following the Herrera the State signed findings court fact and conclusions summary moved for affirmance of the trial regarding of law the court’s earlier denial of However, granted court. leave for Mace challenges. Mace’s constitutional The court supplement his brief with a claim that denied Mace’s due claims on the punishing prohibi- him violated constitutional merits but ruled that Mace had no against tions cruel and unusual challenge sentencing Utah’s scheme for only That is the claim we address this mentally ill because he had not estab- opinion. implicates the claim Because subject lished that he was constitutionality co- ruling Although may defense, statutes. this insanity have difying grant no Utah’s July been correct at the time of the 1st deference to the trial court in our review of issues, James, hearing on the constitutional it legal its conclusions. State (Utah obviously 1991); signed incorrect at the time it was P.2d see also State v. 1994). (Utah Pena, pleaded guilty because Mace had then 938-39 (i) provides: appeal judgment, 1. Rule 11 from the to a review of any specified pre- the adverse determination of approval With of the court and the consent of prevails on prosecution, trial motion. A defendant who a defendant enter a con- ill, plea. plea guilty, guilty appeal shall be allowed to withdraw the ditional contest, ll(i). reserving right, or no Utah R.Crim. P. record (1) matter, prosecution un- It is a defense to a preliminary the State
As
right
any
his
to chal
claims that Mace waived
der
statute or ordinance that
de-
sentencing
illness,
men
lenge
fendant,
scheme for the
Utah’s
of mental
as a result
tally
the trial court ruled
ill because after
required
lacked the mental state
as an
standing to assert the chal
that Mace lacked
charged.
of the offense
Mental
element
lenge,
to renew the
at
he failed
not otherwise a defense.
illness is
reject
argu
sentencing. We
this
after his
76-2-305(1).
§
As we have
Utah Code Ann.
right
properly preserved the
ment. Mace
explained,
previously
this statute limits the
ruling on his
appeal
trial court’s adverse
negating
mens
defense to
rea
punishment claim at the
cruel and unusual
necessary for conviction. See
plea.
time he entered his conditional
361-62;
Young,
at
P.2d
plea
his conditional
note that Mace entered
1993)
J.).
(Utah
Durham,
(opinion 383-84
unsigned
court’s
on the basis of the trial
result,
As a
the statute allows for the convic-
is
entry
minute
before the trial court had
requisite
of those
have the
mens
tion
findings
of fact and conclusions
sued
rea,
though they may
appreciate
even
entry
Ordinarily,
unsigned minute
law.
an
wrongfulness of their conduct or are unable
finality
appealable
constitute an
lacks the
to control their conduct. Mace claims that
Ins.,
Shields,
*5
Shepherd
Inc. v.
order. Ron
1994).
(Utah
punishing such offenders is cruel and unusu-
650,
Logically, it
882 P.2d
652
al,
Eighth
in
Amendment2 to
entry
violation
unsigned
that an
minute
would seem
I,
constitute a
“ad
the United States Constitution and article
likewise could not
sufficient
3
purposes
verse determination” for the
of a
section 9 of the Utah Constitution.
ll(i)
However,
plea.
light
conditional
in
rule
decline to
a state con
We
undertake
plea agree
that the
the fact
conditional
analysis of
claim
stitutional
signed by
judge,
pros
trial
ment was
the
the
argue
analysis
not
of this
he “does
ecutor, Mace,
attorney,
agree
and his
issue under the Utah Constitution would be
a
ment itself reflected
consensus
analysis
different from its
under the federal
unsigned
entry
a sufficient “ad
minute
engage
not
constitution....
This Court will
ll(i) plea
for a rule
verse determination”
constructing arguments
in
out of whole
preserve
of Mace’s
consensus
merits
1239,
Lafferty,
cloth....”
v.
749 P.2d
State
appeal. Applying
constitutional
issues for
(Utah 1988),
corpus
1247 & n. 5
habeas
concept
in
of waiver
these circumstances
Cook,
granted
grounds, Lafferty
on other
v.
utterly
purpose
would
defeat the
of condi
(10th
denied,
Cir.1991),
Turning to Mace’s federal
we
specify
that Mace does not
whether he
note
now address the merits of Mace’s
We
challenging
challenges
section 76-32-305 on its face
claim. He
section 76-2-305 of the
Code,
provides
pertinent part:
applies
in
or as it
to him. We will first address
Utah
which
required;
provides:
bail shall not be
excessive
2. That amendment
Excessive
imposed;
required,
cruel and
Excessive bail shall not be
nor exces-
fines shall not be
nor shall
imposed,
pun-
sive fines
nor cruél and unusual
punishments
unusual
be inflicted. Persons ar-
inflicted.
ishments
imprisoned
with
rested or
shall not be treated
Const,
U.S.
amend. VIII.
unnecessary rigor.
Const,
I, §
Utah
art.
9.
provides:
3. That section
legislature
constitutionality
ap
as it
did
can
of the statute
con-
stitutionally
consistent with the
hold such defendants accounta-
plies to Mace. This is
approach
have taken in other contexts
ble
their criminal conduct but cannot
constitutionally impose any punishment
on
a statute was
constitu
on
which
City
grounds.
such defendants. As we said
the analo-
tional
See Greenwood
(Utah
Lake,
gous
Eighth
context of a broad
North Salt
1991) (“‘A
grounds
Amendment
penal-
Utah’s death
court should therefore examine
ty:
analyzing
complainant’s conduct before
”
hypothetical applications of
other
the law.’
assessing
punishment
“[I]n
selected
Village
Flip
Estates v.
(quoting
of Hoffman
democratically
legislature against
elected
side,
Estates, Inc.,
455 U.S.
Hoffman
measure,
presume
the constitutional
1186, 1191, 71
102 S.Ct.
L.Ed.2d 362
validity.
may
require
legisla-
(1982))).
approach
This
is also consistent
penalty pos-
ture to select the least severe
preference
with our stated
to examine the
long
penalty
sible so
as the
selected is not
cruel and
contours
limitations Utah’s
cruelly
disproportionate
inhumane or
“case-by-
punishment
unusual
clause on a
heavy
the crime
And a
involved.
burden
Bishop,
case basis.” State v.
judg-
rests on those
would attack
representatives
ment of
people.
part
This is true
because the constitu-
A criminal
be cruel
tional test is intertwined with an assess-
barbaric, excessive,
and unusual when it is
contemporary
ment of
standards and the
disproportional4 to the offense committed.
legislative judgment weighs heavily in as-
Helm,
277, 284,
Solem v.
463 U.S.
103 S.Ct.
certaining such standards.
a demo-
‘[I]n
3001, 3006-07;
(1983);
An
L.Ed.2d
*6
courts,
society legislatures,
cratic
not
are
Morris,
816,
(Utah),
drews v.
824
respond
to
to
will
constituted
and con-
denied,
891,
254,
101
cert.
449 U.S.
S.Ct.
66
”
sequently
of
people.’
the moral values
Carter,
(1980);
L.Ed.2d 120
v.
see also State
—
denied,
629,
(Utah),
656-57
cert.
(second
Andrews,
garding
of a
the wisdom
rule,
M’Naghten
sentencing
was not insane under the
scheme. See
ment or of an entire
Herrera,
by majority
269;
which is followed
of states.
895
Bishop, 717 P.2d at
cf.
M’Naght
See
there is no causal between scheme, decline to reach Mace’s statutory We the request- and the relief argument statutory broader hold, ed. if Even we were to which we do constitutionally punishes infirm it is not, precluded that is punish- the State from appreciate wrongful those who cannot ing people appreciate who are unable to of their Those ness conduct. facts are conduct, wrongfulness of their that form of ease, present in this and we hold that Mace utterly unhelpful relief would be to Mace. standing lacks to assert such a broad facial Moving step standing- to the second of the challenge. standing first note rules inquiry, it is also evident that there are more procedural are matter of state law. Provo appropriate litigants claim, Willden, pursue Corp. City 456-58 (Utah 1989). namely, previously rights This court those individuals whose has out three-step inquiry reviewing lined a seeks to assert: those whose mental illness question complainant’s standing of a to sue. impossible appreciate made it for them to Swan, (Utah Jenkins wrongfulness of their conduct. 1983); accord National Parks & Conserva Finally, if even we were to reach the last Lands, tion Ass’n v. Board step standing inquiry, of the we do not find step The first that Mace’s claim raises an issue that is so
inquiry
ascertaining
is directed to
the com
important that we must decide it in the ab-
plainant’s personal
controversy:
stake
appropriate litigant.
sence of a more
adversely
“One who is not
no
affected has
Cf.
City,
Provo
ture
principles Anglo-American
fundamental
is, however,
majority,
It
odd that the
which
criminal
that has existed for centuries.
law
legal compunction against convicting
has no
history
in this state’s
For the first time
morally
persons
blameless
of malum
se
and,
first
exceptions,
two
for the
time
with
crimes,
history,
apparently
open in
this Court now
holds
this case the
in the nation’s
person
that an insane
who commits
holds
person
possibility
refusing
punish
a
by
criminal law is as
prohibited
an act
of a crime even
who has been convicted
impris-
guilty
person
as
sane
though
cannot know that the act for which
he
oned,
executed,
if he were a
and even
wrong.
In other
he was convicted was
person.
I
fully responsible sane
submit
words,
morally
person
who is
blameless
perceive
that the Court fails
extent
ability
loss of his
to discern
princi-
to which fundamental constitutional
as,
right
wrong,
example,
from
such
by
ples
violated
and values have been
disease or
person afflicted with Alzheimer’s
§
Code Ann.
76-2-
affirmance
Utah
paranoid delusions caused
chemical or
305(1). The
flouts centuries-old
decision
*9
might
in the brain that
responsibility hormonal imbalances
principles
personal
Cowan,
why
P.2d
1. See State v.
260 Mont.
5. We are unable to understand
Justice Stew-
denied, - U.S. -,
(1993),
our decision that Mace
art in his dissent refers to
114 S.Ct.
validity
Korell,
lacks
the facial
(1994); State v.
"holding” that would
scheme as a
Winn,
(1984); State v.
Mont.
be convicted but
majority’s holding in such a case would allow person be convicted of a “crime” but bar
a per-
punishment for that “crime” morally culpable
son was not for that act. corrupts very
That foundation of the body
criminal law as normative stan- supposed
dards that are to reflect those fun- precepts concerning
damental the moral na-
ture of humankind on which this nation was
founded.
DURHAM, Justice, dissenting: join majority
I cannot opinion for the my dissenting opinion
reasons set forth in dissenting opinion
and the of Associate Chief
Justice Stewart in State v.
I respectfully therefore dissent. TIMM, Neiuwland,
Louis L. John
Floyd Childs, M. trustees of United Pre Engineering Compa
cision Machine and
ny Sharing Trust; Profit Insur ABCO Agency, Inc., corporation;
ance a Utah Joseph Henriod, L. trustee for the Trust, Ap
Annette Jacob Plaintiffs
pellees,
T. LaMar DEWSNUP and Aletha
Dewsnup; Co., Arrow Investment partnership;
limited The Federal Land Berkeley; Imperial
Bank of Land Ti Inc., trustee, Eugene
tle L.
Carson and Elaine Carson as benefi
ciaries; Stringham, Mazuran, Larsen Sabin, professional corporation;
& Co., Inc.;
Mineral Fertilizer and Har
ry Kaps, Appel V. Defendants
lants.
No. 950073.
Supreme Court of Utah.
Aug. 1996.
