Sharkey v. Sisson

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• concluding that the trial court does not abuse its discretion when it does not find mental illness to be a mitigating circumstance when the defendant fails to establish a nexus between his mental illness and the crime in question
• holding that the defendant had not even attempted to establish a nexus between her offenses and any mental illness when defendant only stated that the trial court failed to find “the uncontroverted fact that she was mentally ill” to be a mitigating circumstance
• affirmed advisory sentence for two felonies that were preceded by five misdemeanor convictions in which the offender did not respond positively to more lenient punishments

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