State v. Plummer
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The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the judgment of the trial court sentencing Defendant to fifteen years of imprisonment after he was convicted by a jury of two counts of aggravated trafficking in scheduled drugs and one count of criminal forfeiture, holding that the sentencing court did not improperly engage in "double counting."
On appeal, Defendant argued that the trial court erred when it considered the commercial motive of his offenses both when it set the basic sentence and when it set the maximum sentence. The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed, holding that the trial court properly considered different aspects of the commercial nature of the offense at each step of the court's analysis.
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