Pfingstl v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Pursuant to the Game Law, the petitioner may offer evidence of mitigating circumstances. However, unlike the sentencing guidelines for the imposition of a penalty in felonies and misdemeanors, which require articulation upon the record of the reasons for the sentence, there is nothing in the Game Law which requires the Commission to record on the record its consideration of mitigating circumstances. The fact that this is petitioner’s first offense in fifty years of hunting, and may have impelled another to reach a different result, is not sufficient to warrant the reversal of this administrative decision.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Marich v. Pennsylvania Game Commission