Walker v. State

We reverse the ten-year sentence of confinement imposed upon the defendant and remand the case to the trial court for the imposition of a sentence within the recommended guideline range of 4-V2 to 5-V2 years. The trial court’s stated reasons for its upward departure from the sentencing guidelines were that (1) the defendant has an extensive record of “arrests and convictions as a juvenile offender ... not calculated in the scoresheet,” (2) the defendant committed crimes “shortly after being released from incarceration,” and (3) the greater sentence is “necessary to protect the public from…