Nathan K. Barker v. State of Indiana

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• noting that a defendant who pleads guilty shortly before trial may not be entitled to any mitigating weight for such a decision
• “[A]s long as a sentence is within the statutory range, it is subject to review only for an abuse of discretion.”
• “A guilty plea is not necessarily a mitigating factor where the defendant receives substantial benefit from the plea or where evidence against the defendant is so strong that the decision to plead guilty is merely pragmatic.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).