Opinion ID: 2273318
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Reese's maximum sentence

Text: [¶ 31] The court set the maximum sentence at twenty-nine years. The mitigating factors that Reese had advanced included family and community support, academic performance, employment, childhood trauma in witnessing a murder, and his relatively youthful age of twenty-seven. The court rejected the assertion that Reese's age was a mitigating factor and found that the remaining mitigating factors did not outweigh the significant aggravating factors. The aggravating factors that the court found included using the victim to obtain a firearm for Reese's use when he knew that was illegal; leaving the victim along the road at night after shooting her and causing life-threatening injuries; demonstrating a lack of any genuine remorse either at the time of the crime or later; and having a substantial and serious criminal history that included convictions for felony robbery and unlawful carrying of a firearm. The court did not disregard sentencing factors and did not abuse its discretion in setting the maximum period of imprisonment at twenty-nine years. See Dwyer, 2009 ME 127, ¶ 41, 985 A.2d at 480-81; 17-A M.R.S. § 2154.