Boone County v. Apex of Arkansas, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that trial court acted within its discretion in denying defendant’s request for first-offender treatment when there was no indication that trial court refused to consider request or erroneously believed that such was not permitted
• although court stated its general policy concerning first offender treatment, it also clarified it had no absolute rule and cited nature of the offense as the primary reasonfor denying request
• although court stated its general policy concerning first offender treatment, also clarified it had no absolute rule and cited nature of the offense as the primary reason for denying request
• “We will remand only when the record clearly establishes either that the trial court refused to consider first offender treatment on the merits or erroneously believed that the law did not permit such an exercise of discretion.”
• “We will remand only when the record clearly establishes either that the trial court refused to consider first offender treatment on the merits or erroneously believed that the law did not permit such an exercise of discretion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).