Jones v. Department of Corrections

Worswick, C.J.

(concurring)—I concur in substance with the majority opinion and have signed it. However, I believe the retroactivity analysis discussion is unnecessary and undesirable. Retroactivity analysis should be strictly limited to the application of opinions announcing a new principle of law. Here, as in Reeves, no new principle governs our decision. Counsel for Jones simply failed to read the law that was there to be read. His attempt to save the situation by invoking retroactivity analysis has no merit. We should say as much, but no more.