Rice v. State
Annotate this CaseAppellant pled guilty to murder, murder in the perpetration of a robbery, and robbery. Appellant sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. The Supreme Court subsequently issued an order directing the trial court to revise the sentencing order to comport with precedent and to clarify whether the trial court relied on non-capital aggravators when imposing sentence. The trial court issued a revised sentencing order of life without parole. Appellant appealed, arguing that the order was deficient because it improperly relied on non-statutory aggravators as a basis for imposing a sentence of life imprisonment without parole. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the order as revised comported with prior case law and was not an abuse of the trial court’s discretion.
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