State v. Heywood

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that to justify a dispositional departure the district court “can focus more on the defendant as an individual and on whether the presumptive sentence would be best for [her] and for society”
• stating that in considering dispositional departure, this court's focus is on defendant as an individual and whether presumptive sentence is best for defendant and for society
• providing that with dispositional departure requests, the district court “focus[es] more on the defendant as an individual and on whether the presumptive sentence would be best for [the defendant] and for society”
• explaining that “when justifying only a dispositional departure, the trial court can focus more ... on whether the presumptive sentence would be best ... for society,” in addition to other factors (second emphasis added)
• stating that a decision on a dispositional departure allows the court to “focus more on the defendant as an individual and on whether the presumptive sentence would be best for [her] and for society”
• stating that when considering “only a dispositional departure, the [district] court can focus more on the defendant as an individual and on whether the presumptive sentence would be best for [the defendant] and for society”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).