Tennessee Supreme Court· 6/29/2006

State v. Trotter

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201 S.W.3d 651
2006 Tenn. LEXIS 558

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holding that a sentence of confinement was necessary to avoid depreciating the seriousness of the offense and that the excessive nature of the offense warranted the denial of an alternative sentence
noting that the seriousness of the offense alone may justify a trial court’s denial of alternative sentencing where offense is especially violent, horrifying, or reprehensible
such a denial of alternative sentencing warranted only when offense is “especially violent, horrifying, shocking, reprehensible, offensive or otherwise of an excessive or exaggerated degree”
circumstances surrounding theft of approximately $500,000 from employer justified denial of alternative sentencing based on seriousness and excessive nature of the offense

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Judges: Birch, Barker, Anderson, Holder, Clark

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