State v. Zavala-Ramos

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• immigration status cannot be considered as a per se aggravating factor but it is not irrelevant to whether a defendant can conform his conduct to legal requirements
• trial court was entitled to consider defendant’s pattern of illegally entering the United States as an aggravating factor in determining whether a probationary sentence would serve the purposes of protecting the public and punishing the offender
• disregard for laws and rules, making successful probation unlikely

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).