State v. Bottoms

How courts have described this case

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• holding that when a trial court relies on Code section 40-35-103(1)(B
• stating that in order to deny an alternative sentence based solely on the seriousness of the offense pursuant to Code section 40-35- 103(1)(B
• stating that, for purposes of Code section 40-35-102(3)(B), criminal conduct “encompasses more than arrests resulting in convictions but includes criminal behavior in a generic sense that people of ordinary intelligence will understand”
• considering a defendant’s eventual parole, employment history, education, indigency status, and future employment potential
• upholding the trial court’s conclusion that confinement was necessary to protect the public by restraining a defendant with a long criminal history based on the defendant’s four misdemeanor convictions and continued drug use
• only Hooper factor satisfied was that defendant intentionally set the fire; confinement based on deterrence inappropriate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).