910 So. 2d 12 - Sweat v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “IT IS, therefore ordered and Adjudged by the Court that the Defendant be and he/she is hereby sentenced to serve a term of twenty years in custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections at a facility to be designated by said department, that twelve years of said sentence shall be and the same is hereby suspended and that the defendant shall be placed under post-release supervision upon the release from the term of incarceration for a period of five years pursuant to Mississippi Code section 47-7-34 and said sentence is based upon the following conditions....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 912 So. 2d 458 - Sweat v. State

2. “that the trial court erred when it suspended a portion of Sweat's twenty year sentence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 912 So. 2d 458 - Sweat v. State

3. “sentencing is the exclusive prerogative of the trial courts”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 912 So. 2d 458 - Sweat v. State