Anglemyer v. State

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

RUCKER, Justice.

The defendant-petitioner, Alexander J. Anglemyer, seeks rehearing following our decision affirming his sentences for robbery and battery. We grant rehearing solely to clarify that a defendant who pleads guilty does not forfeit the opportunity to claim on appeal that the trial court should have considered his guilty plea a mitigating circumstance even though the defendant failed to assert this claim at sentencing.

A detailed recitation of the facts, procedural history, and background of this case is set forth in our original opinion. See Anglemyer v.…