State v. Read

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• holding sentence downgrade was not appropriate where the mitigating factors did not substantially preponderate, the interests of justice would not be served, and the crime was serious in nature
• noting that defendant's confession was not entitled to any substantial weight in the absence of any indication defendant had identified any other perpetrators or assisted the State in solving other crimes
• finding a \defendant's confession was not entitled to any substantial weight in determining his sentence in view of its limited benefit to the State\
• questioning whether a defendant's confession warrants a finding of mitigating factor twelve because the defendant did not identify another perpetrator or help law enforcement solve other crimes
• questioning whether even \a confession qualifies as 'cooperation' within the intent of\ N.J.S.A. 2C:44-1(b)(12)
• questioning whether a confession qualifies as a mitigating factor, and holding that a defendant's confession that provided a limited benefit to the State was not entitled to any substantial weight in determining a sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• In re M.I.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2013-06-28· cited 116×
• State v. Locane
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2018-02-15· cited 48×
• State ex rel. V.A.
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2012-09-12· cited 28×
• State v. Lake
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2009-07-27· cited 19×
• State ex rel. V.A.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2011-06-22· cited 3×
• People ex rel. J.J.J.
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-07-05· cited 3×
• People ex rel. J.G.
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-07-05· cited 2×
• State Ex Rel. Va
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2011-06-22· cited 1×
• State of Tennessee v. Tyshon Booker
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2020-04-08
• STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. TIMOTHY J. CANFIELD (16-12-3619, CAMDEN COUNTY AND STATEWIDE)
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2022-01-10