Moylan, J.
Is the sentencing procedure a part of the trial? The answer to that may well be, "Yes and no." It all depends upon what one means by the term "trial." Is it what the term literally and narrowly denotes or is it what the term more broadly connotes? The term "trial" may describe an extended judicial proceeding, from the filing of criminal...
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