State v. Young’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “[T]he record on appeal does not establish that Young is a large-scale drug dealer or that he has a history of selling drugs, and the quantity of drugs and the money involved in each transaction was small. The defendant was thirty-one years of age at the time of sentencing, and although the record alludes to prior criminal activity, the State did not establish such.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 So. 3d 592 - State v. Wallace · 984 So. 2d 144 - State v. Young

2. “This Court has upheld a twenty-two-year sentence for a defendant who, in addition to a violation of LSA-R.S. 40:981.3, had one earlier felony drug conviction and had been previously arrested on eight prior occasions. He was charged with a total of seventeen offenses in these arrests, six of which involved firearms charges, three were for drug-related offenses (one of which resulted in the felony conviction mentioned above), five were for crimes against persons, and three for crimes against property. In that opinion, we noted that this Court has previously upheld sentences of fifteen years of imprisonment for commission of this offense where the defendants did not have a criminal history. This Court has also affirmed a defendant’s two, fifteen-year consecutive sentences for two counts of distribution of cocaine, where the defendant sold cocaine to two different undercover agents on two separate occasions approximately one month apart. In upholding his consecutive sentences, we noted that defendant had a history of prior criminal activity. We have upheld a defendant’s five, twenty-year consecutive sentences for five counts of distribution of cocaine. However, there the defendant had a criminal history of prior felony convictions for issuing worthless checks and simple robbery and also received a life sentence after being adjudicated a third felony offender. In comparison, another defendant received eighteen-year sentences on each of his five counts of distribution of cocaine, w”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 So. 3d 592 - State v. Wallace

3. “It has been -held that multiple drug transactions occurring on different days are separate and distinct acts so as to render Article 883 inapplicable and to justify consecutive sentences, even when they involved the same undercover officer and the transaction occurs at the same location. Therefore, the trial court was not required to articulate par ticular justification for imposing consecutive sentences.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 So. 3d 592 - State v. Wallace