State v. Martz’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““This Court takes an extremely serious view of drug violations, particularly those involving distribution. Because of this attitude, the Court’s tendency is toward the imposition of substantial terms of imprisonment in such cases. The Court is nevertheless under mandate to follow the Code of Criminal Procedure Article 894.1 when imposing sentence. In the case at bar, after reference to such guidelines, the Court finds the defendant has no history of prior delinquency or criminal activity and has apparently led a law abiding life for a substantial period of time before the commission of the instant crime. The Court also finds that due to his rural background and inexperience in the metropolitan areas, as evidenced by the pre-sen-tence report, the defendant, apparently, did not contemplate that his conduct would cause or threaten serious harm. On the other hand the Court feels that in the view of the extreme seriousness of trafficking of drugs in any form, a lesser sentence than that which is about to be imposed would deprecate the seriousness of the defendant’s crime. The Court further feels that the defendant is in need of some correctional treatment which would be better provided by institutional commitment.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Martz

2. ““Twenty-five year old Martz had no history of prior delinquency or criminal activity. The judge noted that due to Martz’ rural background and inexperience, the defendant apparently had not contemplated that his conduct would cause or threaten serious harm. He had a record of gainful employment and had led an abiding life for a substantial time before committing the instant offense of distributing ‘two match boxes’ of marijuana to undercover narcotics officers. Considering these factors, we find no factual basis for the trial judge’s conclusions that a lesser sentence than that imposed ‘would deprecate the seriousness of the defendant’s crime’ and that the defendant ‘is in need of some correctional treatment which would be better provided by institutional commitment.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Martz