Brugman v. State

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• construing statute to allow sentencing court to impose reduced or suspended sentence if it finds defendant rendered substantial assistance to state
• construing statute to allow sentencing court, on its own inquiry apart from prosecutor’s recommendation, to impose reduced or suspended sentence if it finds defendant rendered substantial assistance to state
• information that “substantial assistance” was provided by the person convicted may be brought to the sentencing court’s attention by the district attorney or the defendant, or the sentencing court may make its own inquiry into the matter

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).