State v. Hunter

We are affirming even though the trial court failed to put its reasons for deviating from the sentencing guidelines in writing the same day that sentencing took place.

At the sentencing, the trial court stated with great clarity, and emotion, its reason for departing from the guidelines:

THE COURT: I think I will and I urge the State to appeal with the hope that maybe some humanistic panel will decide that, when somebody says there is the possibility of a chance and you give the guy that chance and you tell probation to watch him like a hawk and he messes up, then the State gets more than its…