In re Coykendall

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• discussing circumstances in which sentencing court’s findings of independent grounds for departure are sufficient to support conclusion that court would have imposed the same departure sentence based on a single factor alone
• affirming judgment imposing departure sentence considering, among other things, the defendants’ disregard for any laws and inability to be deterred from committing new criminal activ- ity
• it is a waste of judicial resources to address all reasons if record states that one aggravating factor was sufficient
• defendant convicted of felony murder when defendant and two companions robbed victim; one companion struck victim repeatedly with pipe and killed him
• defendant on supervision showed inability to be deterred from committing new crimes
• crime committed while the defendant was on supervision

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