606 So. 2d 891 - State v. Strother’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably 639 So. 2d 237 - State v. Smith (1994), 865 So. 2d 284 - State v. Hampton (2004)
41 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · 433 So. 2d 104 - State v. Square · 430 So. 2d 1286 - State v. Lewis · 382 So. 2d 921 - State v. Ortego · 545 So. 2d 714 - State v. Richardson
Most-quoted passages
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“§ 209A3. The guidelines set forth 19 aggravating circumstances which, when present to a significant degree, differentiate the case under consideration as more serious than the typical case arising under a particular offense. § 209B. If the trial court finds one or more aggravating circumstances, then the grid range for the”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“as set forth in the statute defining the crime of manslaughter. The Louisiana Felony Sentencing Guidelines are advisory, not mandatory. LSA-R.S. 15:326. A sentence shall not be declared unlawful or excessive solely because the sentence does not conform to the designated range in the guidelines grid. LSA-R.S. 15:328; LSA-C.Cr.P. Art. 894.1; La.S.G. § 103J. Upward departures from the designated sentence range of the guideline grid should be made when one or more aggravating circumstances significantly differentiate the particular case from the”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Article 883 of the Code of Criminal Procedure provides that if Defendant is convicted of two or more offenses based on the same act or transaction, or constituting parts of a common scheme or plan, the terms of imprisonment shall be served concurrently unless the court expressly directs that some or all be served consecutively. And I'm ordering that they be consecutive rather that concurrent and I'll now state my reasons. Article 905.4 lists several aggravating circumstances. This court is convinced that at least four of those aggravating circumstances are applicable here and that they are sufficient grounds to make the sentences consecutive and specifically the evidence was sufficient to show that you were engaged in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of either aggravated burglary, armed robbery, first degree robbery or simple robbery at the time these murders were committed. Also, the evidence is sufficient to show that you knowingly created a risk of death or great bodily harm to more than one person. Also, the evidence is sufficient to show that these offenses were committed in an especially heinous, atrocious or cruel manner, and that the victims in this case were both over the age of sixty-five. All of those, I find, are sufficient reasons to make these two life sentences consecutive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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