Creekmore v. State

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a defendant who fails to argue a mitigating circumstance to the trial court may not do so for the first time on appeal
• noting that “if the defendant fails to advance a mitigating circumstance at sentencing, this court will presume that the factor is not significant, and the defendant is precluded from advancing it as a mitigating circumstance for the first time on appeal”
• “One consequence of pleading guilty is restriction of the ability to challenge the conviction on direct appeal.”
• “many people are gainfully employed such that this would not require the trial court to note it as a mitigating factor or afford it the same weight as defendant proposed”
• “many people are gainfully employed such that this would not require the trial court to note it as a mitigating factor or afford it the same weight as defendant proposed”
• “[I]f the defendant fails to advance a mitigating circumstance at sentencing, this court will presume that the factor is not significant, and the defendant is precluded from advancing it as a mitigating circumstance for the first time on appeal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).