481 So. 2d 31 - Vanover v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “1. The charge of Aggravated Battery with a Firearm requires a minimum mandatory sentence of at least three years in the Department of Corrections. 2. The offense of shooting Kim Carevic was done without any moral or legal justification. 3. The defendant intended to murder Kim Carevic, and it was only by a stroke of luck that Kim Carevic avoided being murdered. 4. The manner of the shooting of Kim Carevic, being at close range and at the body of the victim, created a great risk of serious bodily harm and/or death to the victim. 5. This was a particularly aggravated set of circumstances which sets this case far and above the average Aggravated Battery.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 498 So. 2d 899 - Vanover v. State · 525 So. 2d 912 - Keeton v. State

2. “[t]he nature and severity of victim injury has historically been one of the most salient and signal factors in determining the proper measure of punishment for crime,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 498 So. 2d 899 - Vanover v. State · 507 So. 2d 788 - Smith v. State

3. “prohibiting us from going to the record to flesh out the factual support to better ascertain the sufficiency of the reasons given.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 498 So. 2d 899 - Vanover v. State · 525 So. 2d 912 - Keeton v. State