Smith v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• determining that the trial court was not obligated to consider Smith’s cooperation with the police as a mitigating factor because it could have been based on pragmatism
• affirming defendant’s sentence after observing that defendant’s “poor decision-making” during offenses was due to “voluntary intoxication on drugs”
• finding no abuse of the trial court’s sentencing discretion where Smith failed to show his diminished mental capacity limited his ability to function or had a nexus with the crime
• cooperation was a pragmatic decision made only after arrest and not entitled to mitigating weight
• trial court did not abuse its discretion when aggravators supported by the record
• no abuse of discretion where record supported trial court’s findings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jesse Velez v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-04-13
• Camille R. Fincher v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-02-26
• Albert L. Armstrong v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-04-18
• Casey Mae Measles v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-05-18
• April M. Camos v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-07-06
• Jordan L. Gosnell v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-10-13
• Justin Kasten v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-05-01
• Julius L. Sapp v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2020-10-15

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Cardwell v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2008-11-12· cited 1,919×
• Anglemyer v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2007-06-26· cited 1,831×
• Anglemyer v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2007-10-30· cited 1,479×
• Childress v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2006-06-14· cited 1,438×
• Sensback v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-12-17· cited 112×
• Commissioner of Revenue v. Carrigan
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1998-08-17· cited 39×
• Hoeppner v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-12-29· cited 13×
• Johnson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-10-30· cited 10×
• Glass v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-01-13· cited 3×