Lavoie v. State

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a plea agreement was not a significant mitigating factor where there was such overwhelming evidence against the defendant that the plea was merely a pragmatic decision
• affirming a seventy-one year sentence for sex crimes that were “particularly depraved and [of a] heinous nature” and committed against a single victim
• “a guilty plea does not rise to the level of significant mitigation where the defendant has received a substantial benefit from the plea or where the evidence against him is such that the decision to plead guilty is merely a pragmatic one”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).