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585 N.E.2d 271

Sims v. State

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided January 23, 1992

Indiana Supreme Court · decided 1992-01-23

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Decided 1992-01-23

How this case has been cited

Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Cardwell v. State (2008), Morgan v. State (1996)

55 state decisions

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DeBRULER, Justice,

¶1dissenting.

¶2I agree that the nature of this crime of murder, involving as it does, a youthful victim, and an intent to wrongly exploit that young person, warrants an enhancement of the sentence beyond the standard forty-years. However, appellant’s character and background, as described in the majority opinion, is entitled to significant weight as well. In my opinion it is manifestly unreasonable to give the maximum, enhanced sentence of sixty-years, thereby failing to translate appellant’s character and background into some manifest restraint upon the extent of the enhancement. I would order this sentence reduced to 52 years.

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