What is the burden of appealing against a sentence that is irrational or arbitrary?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. McDonald, F068137 (Cal. App. 2017):
attacking the sentence to clearly show that the sentencing decision was irrational or arbitrary.' " (Ibid.) That burden is a heavy one. (People v. Bradley (2012) 208 Cal.App.4th 64, 89.)
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