State v. Loveland

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• holding that trial court could consider defendant’s testimony and demeanor at trial in fashioning sentence because defendant’s truthfulness at trial is probative of attitude towards society and prospects for rehabilitation
• concluding failure to object to stipulation to element of offense stated in open court results in waiver of argument on appeal
• affirming Court’s long-held position that it would be “bad policy to create a category of errors which are plain per se”
• West \allowed defendants to attack the validity of jury trial waivers in this Court without any preservation below\
• defendants convicted of sex offenses must be offered immunity against use of statements made at sentencing concerning crimes for which they were convicted
• because defendant made no statement at his sentencing hearing and may have been deterred from doing so by desire to preserve his privilege against self-incrimination, sentence must be reversed

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