Amalfitano v. State

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• holding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion by failing to find the defendant’s guilty plea as a mitigating factor
• holding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion by failing to find the defendant’s guilty plea as a mitigating factor
• holding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion by failing to find the defendant’s guilty plea as a mitigating factor
• observing that a guilty plea based on pragmatic considerations is entitled to less mitigating weight
• noting that a guilty plea is not necessarily a mitigating factor where the defendant receives a substantial benefit from it or where the evidence is so strong the plea is merely a pragmatic decision
• finding no mitigator in alleged remorse because trial court had authority to assess credibility of witnesses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).