# State v. Fields

> Idaho Supreme Court · February 16, 1995 · 127 Idaho 904

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9844683

## Case

- **Full name:** STATE of Idaho, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Zane Jack FIELDS, Defendant-Appellant
- **Court:** Idaho Supreme Court
- **Decided:** February 16, 1995
- **Citations:** 127 Idaho 904; 908 P.2d 1211; 1995 Ida. LEXIS 14
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Silak
- **Judges:** McDevitt, Johnson, Silak, Trout, Weston, Tern
- **Cited by:** 67 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- concluding that eyewitness identification of the defendant was not tainted by media publication of the defendant’s photograph and that any prejudice that may have resulted from admission of the witnesses’ identifications was speculative and did not rise to the level of fundame…
- affirming denial of motion to suppress where the defendant “presented no evidence to establish that the informants asked any questions or initiated any conversations about the murder”
- affirming trial court’s denial of a motion for new trial

## Opinion text

SILAK, J.,
concurring, and concurring in result part VIII. D.
I concur fully in the Court’s opinion, except that I concur in the result in Part VIII(D). In my view the requirement found in the current version of I.C. § 19-2827(c)(3), to consider “whether the sentence of death is excessive,” requires the same type of excessiveness analysis that the Court has performed in non-capital cases. See, e.g., State v. Babb, 125 Idaho 934, 940 , 877 P.2d 905, 911 (1994); State v. Broadhead, 120 Idaho 141 , 814 P.2d 401 (1991), overruled on other grounds, State v. Brown, 121 Idaho 385, 394 , 825 P.2d 482, 491 (1992). Applying that analysis to the present case, I conclude that the sentence is not excessive.

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