The occurrence of criminal verdict disparity in the case of narcotics misuse may cause the
appearance of negative perception among members of society, since this is considered not
absence from the illegality during court process. While, this is not such that, but based on the
reason of legal considerations given by judge. Therefore, the author raises the issue of the
problem formulation on the basic consideration of law magistrate in the Yogyakarta State law
Court for deciding the criminal verdict towards to the accused on narcotics misuse; hence in turn
this causes the disparity in criminal verdict. The aim of this research is to obtain the data on the
basic consideration of Court magistrate in the Yogyakarta State law court for deciding criminal
verdict for the accused in the case of narcotics misuse; hence this causes the presence of the
disparity in criminal verdict. The kind of research is employed here is legal normative research,
that is the legal research with abstract, carried out through deduction process from positive
norms in the mean of legal systematization and positive law accreditation towards to the problem
which is related to the basic consideration of Yogyakarta state law court for deciding criminal
verdict towards to actor of narcotics misuse, hence this causes the disparity of criminal verdict.
Based on the research conducted, the bases for deciding criminal verdict on the case of narcotics’
misuse are followings : the error in the formulation of criminal law, the background and the goal
of committing misconduct on narcotics’ misuse , life history, the accused, the professional
background of the accused, the age of the accused, the attitude associates to the ,misuse of
narcotics after committing misconduct on criminal category and the causes are resulted from the
misuse of narcotics. The recommendation from the author about the presented issue is: court
magistrate must be careful and knowledgeable in handling every case, the socialization on
disparity of criminal verdict must be carried out, and the research on the quality of law
magistrate must be carried out continuously