Sensback v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion by failing to identify Sensback’s plea as mitigating where the State had dropped robbery and auto theft charges and agreed not to pursue a sentence of life without parole
• finding that a guilty plea is not substantially mitigating if a defendant has received a considerable benefit for his plea
• stating that the trial court did not abuse its discretion despite finding that the need for correctional or rehabilitative treatment as an aggravator was \more aimed at location than duration\
• explaining that once a defendant is eighteen years old, the defendant “is beyond the age at which the law commands special treatment by virtue of youth”
• “Unfortunately, murders committed by eighteen-year-olds are more common than they used to be.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).