858 So. 2d 882 - Clark v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “When it appears ... that the ends of justice and the best interest of the public, as well as the defendant, will be served thereby, such court, in termtime or in vacation, shall have the power, after conviction or a plea of guilty, except in a case where a death sentence or life imprisonment is the maximum penalty which may be imposed or where the defendant has been convicted of a felony on a previous occasion in any court or courts of the United States and of any state or territories thereof, to suspend the imposition or execution of sentence, and place the defendant on probation as herein provided, except that the court shall not suspend the execution of a sentence of imprisonment after the defendant shall have begun to serve such sentence. In placing any defendant on probation, the court, or judge, shall direct that such defendant be under the supervision of the Department of Corrections.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 874 So. 2d 448 - Hunt v. State

2. “affirm[ed] the denial of post-conviction relief to a prisoner whose only complaint is that he received an impermissibly lenient sentence and then, by his own subsequent action, squandered the benefit of that undeserved lenience.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 904 So. 2d 216 - Gates v. State