Darrell Miller v. State of Florida

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• noting that the failure to render aid is “relevant to whether a person convicted of a crime has acted in a particularly cruel manner”
• noting that an upward sentencing departure based on particular cruelty is not an abuse of the district court’s discretion when the cruelty is not usually associated 4 with the relevant offense
• explaining the “fundamental requirement” that upward departures are permitted “only when a defendant’s conduct in the commission of an offense is significantly more- serious than that typically involved in the commission of the offense in question”
• relying on the word “particular” to conclude that the aggravating factor of “particular cruelty” toward the victim means cruelty “of a kind not usually associated with the commission of the offense in question” (citation omitted) (internal quotation marks omitted)

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