Stedtfeld v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating a sentencing judge need not wholly ignore a defendant’s continued assertions of innocence in the context of rehabilitation potential, even if it should not usually be given much weight
• “[T]rial judges are vested with sentencing discretion so that they can apply their own judgment and experience to the task of independently sentencing each defendant that comes before them.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).