State v. Bruno’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “Defendant had three prior felony convictions. Louisiana jurisprudence supports lengthy sentences for defendants who have multiple prior felony convictions. In State v. Douglas, 389 So.2d 1263 (La. 1980), the defendant received a ninety-nine year sentence for armed robbery. Douglas' sentence was upheld because he had three prior felony convictions and was believed to be a likely recidivist. In State v. Causey, 450 So.2d 1071 (La. App. 1 Cir.1984), the defendant received concurrent seventy-five and eighty-year sentences for armed robbery. Causey's sentences were upheld because he was a third felony offender, and because he had solicited witnesses to commit perjury at his trial. In State v. Wilson, 452 So.2d 773 (La. App. 4 Cir.1984), defendant received a ninety-nine-year sentence. Wilson's sentence was upheld because the appellate court found support for this maximum sentence from defendant's extensive arrest and conviction record. In the case at bar the defendant had an extensive record of prior convictions. Defendant committed a very serious crime, a crime during which innocent parties could easily have been injured. The mitigating factors of defendant's family status, and the fact that no actual harm resulted to the victim, should have been considered by the trial court in passing sentence. The aggravating factors and the jurisprudence in factually similar cases supports the trial judge's sentencing choice. Defendant's sentence is not excessive.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 678 So. 2d 59 - State v. Cooper

2. “The court will sentence you to be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than sixty years without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence. That's on count 53,712, the charge of armed robbery. On docket number 53,713, the charge of armed robbery, the court will sentence you in accord with the statute for sixty years without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence, consecutive with the sentence under docket number 53,712.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 575 So. 2d 928 - State v. Moore