48 So. 3d 1218 - State v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “An excessive sentence is a penalty that is so grossly disproportionate to the severity of the crime that it shocks our sense of justice or it makes no measurable contribution to acceptable penal goals and, therefore, is nothing more than a needless imposition of pain and suffering. The trial court is given wide discretion in imposing a sentence, and, absent a manifest abuse of that discretion, the reviewing court should not deem as excessive a sentence imposed within statutory limits. Still, a sentence that falls within the statutory limits may be excessive under the particular circumstances of a given case.... The only relevant question for the reviewing court to consider is not whether another sentence would be more appropriate, but rather whether the trial court abused its broad discretion in sentencing a defendant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 76 So. 3d 1264 - State v. Washington