542 So. 2d 181 - State v. Chavis’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. ““Let the record reflect.that Mr. Serrano knew what the sentence would be before he entered his plea of guilty to these charges, but I’m still going to go over the guidelines of 894.1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The reason the Court gave this sentence was that Mr. Serrano had a prior criminal record besides the present charges. And I think that if he were put on probation for this particular charge that there would be an undue risk that during the period of the suspended sentence or probation that he would commit another crime. “Secondly, the defendant is in need of correctional treatment or a custodial environment that could be provided, most effectively, by his commitment to an institution. I think a lesser sentence would deprecate the seriousness of these crimes.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 563 So. 2d 538 - State v. Serrano