Although defendant was 17 years old when he committed this crime and it was his first offense, we find that the resentencing court providently exercised its discretion in declining to adjudicate defendant a youthful offender and in re-imposing the negotiated sentence. The nature of defendant's actions in shooting and killing the unarmed victim, who had been asleep on a bus stop bench, without provocation and firing five gunshots after his codefendant fired one shot, render...
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