HARRIS, J.
The issue in this case is whether the sentencing judge is permitted to mitigate a sentence following a conviction for lewd, lascivious or indecent assault upon a child because the child was the "initiator, willing participant, aggressor or provoker of the incident." The trial judge observed that this ground "is the one the sentencing commission considered for this particular statute and recommended to the legislature, and it is the theory that the...
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