ROBERT W. HANSEN, J.
Defendant claims the trial judge abused his judicial discretion in sentencing the defendant to prison instead of placing him on probation. Every case has its frame of reference. Here that backdrop is the sentencing phase of the judicial process in criminal cases.
It is thus necessary to begin, even though we repeat what has been said before by this court — and very recently so — with the wide discretion...
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