Egelak v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “While the district attorney's participation in the sentencing procedures would hardly qualify as model advocacy, we think that our trial judges possess the requisite degree of perceptiveness to recognize and discount any attempt at overreaching, exaggeration, or unfair tactics on the part of counsel. Judges are expected to be at home in frequent extremes of adversary presentation and not to be unduly susceptible to strident pleas for the imposition of harsh sanctions. To a large extent we must rely upon the intelligence, experience, integrity, and discretion of our trial judges in sentencing matters. [33]”

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

2. “Again, we reiterate our belief that the trial judge is equipped to recognize and discount any attempts at unfairness or overreaching in a presentence report.”

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

3. “shall be based on the principle of reformation and upon the need for protecting the public,”

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