State v. Perkins’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “A court may properly consider prior arrests and police reports in sentencing a defendant. State v. Soco, 508 So.2d 915, 917 (La.App. 4 Cir.1987). However, a trial judge does not have "unbridled authority" to consider prior arrests when the defendant may have been innocent of those charges. State v. Gleason, 533 So.2d 1032, 1033 (La.App. 4 Cir.1988). The primary factor to be considered is whether there were aggravating factors in the present offense. State v. Willis, 452 So.2d 796, 797 (La.App. 4 Cir.1984). In the instant case, the judge found the aggravating factors in a different case, one in which the defendant had been arrested, but not convicted. A court cannot rely on allegations as to the factual circumstances of other offenses of which a defendant has not been convicted in order to find that the present crime for which the defendant is being sentenced was aggravated or severe.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 630 So. 2d 1330 - State v. Berry