Cloum v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• guilty plea can be significant mitigating factor when State reaps substantial benefit from defendant’s plea; this act conserves State resources and relieves victim’s family of pain of trial
• “[A] thirty-eight-year-old without so much as a single arrest on his record should be entitled to even greater mitigation [than a sixteen-year-old without an arrest] because he has avoided accumulating a criminal record for an additional twenty-two years.”
• position of trust aggravator applied where defendant killed his spouse

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).