State v. Bowie’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “The defendant is 42 years of age and is classified as a second felony offender, although he has approximately twenty-eight separate encounters with law enforcement agencies beginning on January 3, 1984. Fifteen of those encounters were classified as encounters concerning crimes against a person. The defendant was convicted of four misdemeanors. The pre-sentence investigation states that the victim reported that after the defendant stabbed him three times, he told the victim, “You’re lucky I didn’t kill you.” On October 28, 2008, the defendant allegedly beat the victim while they were both incarcerated resulting in the victim requiring twelve stitches in the facial or mouth area. There is pending a second degree battery charge in that matter and as indicated or testified to by the Warden today, apparently both inmates were charged with that altercation or altercations. There is an undue risk that during the period of a suspended sentence or a probation, that the defendant will commit another crime. The defendant is in need of correctional treatment or a custodial environment that can be provided most effectively by his commitment to an institution. A lesser sentence will deprecate the seriousness of the defen dant’s crime. There are no mitigating circumstances except — there are circumstances but there are not mitigating, in that there was the second altercation between these individuals after the original conviction or the conviction subject of this matter. There is certainly”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 7 So. 3d 802 - State v. Thomas