Bobby A. Harlan v. State of Indiana

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “allegations of prior criminal activity need not be reduced to conviction before they may be properly considered as aggravating circumstances by a sentencing court”
• addressing an ex post facto challenge to the requirement to register under INSORA on direct appeal of the defendant’s child molesting convictions
• explaining trial court did not abuse its discretion in failing to determine Harlan’s cooperation with law enforcement was a mitigating factor where he may have chosen to cooperate with the police out of pragmatism
• rejecting the defendant’s claim that the trial court should have found that he was unlikely to commit another crime and observing, in part, that the defendant molested the victim repeatedly over a span of years despite having ample opportunity to end his abusive behavior
• “Allegations of prior criminal activity need not be reduced to conviction before they may be properly considered as aggravating circumstances by a sentencing court.”
• enhanced sentence appropriate for defendant who repeatedly sexually abused child he cared for

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).