State v. Lampien

How courts have described this case

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• noting the victims “were exercising their rights under [the victim-impact statute] ... and therefore were not bound by the terms of the plea .agreement”
• rejecting claim that victim-impact statements breached plea agreement when “nothing in the record [suggested] that the prosecutor improperly influenced the [victims or] called the [victims] to subvert the plea agreement”
• noting the victims “were exercising their rights under [the victim-impact statute] . . . and therefore were not bound by the terms of the plea agreement”
• rejecting claim that victim-impact statements breached plea agreement when “nothing in the record [suggested] that the prosecutor improperly influenced the [victims or] called the [victims] to subvert the plea agreement”
• the phrase “as the result of” in Idaho Code Section 19-5306(5)(a) indicates that the victim’s injuries must have been caused by the commission of the crime
• prosecutor’s promise to recommend particular sentence under plea agreement does not bind law enforcement officers who are victims of defendant’s crime or prohibit officers from making sentencing recommendations in their individual capacity as crime victims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).