State v. Vickers’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““ ‘Mr. Vickers, I assume that you were informed that recommendations to the Court are just recommendations. They are not binding on the Court. You have a history here of prior felony convictions, um, and I’m not sure it’s appropriate to run all of these sentences concurrently. However, I’ll go through this file again. I’ve only had a brief time to review the presentence report. I have had an opportunity to do that, but these are serious and violent offenses. Um, Mr. Vickers, your statement is that you’ve stumbled here. It appears to me this is a little more than a stumble, certainly, to the victim. You have several victims here. The theft is a nonviolent crime, but it is a relatively large amount of money that you stole from an employer. I think the citizens of this community have a right to be protected against violent criminals. This certainly is a violent act. I’ll address that in writing within a relatively short period of time. I hope you’ll be furnished copies of that.’ ” 19 Kan. App. 2d at 496 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 24 Kan. App. 2d 117 - State v. Snow