Andrews v. State

The defendant appeals his sentences of fifteen and five years’ imprisonment for armed burglary and related crimes committed when he was seventeen years old. As grounds for his appeal, he points to the trial court’s statement at sentencing that judges for the Circuit Court of the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit “try to send a message up here to stay out of the Nineteenth Circuit.” The defendant argues that the trial court erred both by considering general deterrence as a sentencing factor and by considering his domicile in imposing his sentence. Due to recent precedent of this court holding that…