Opinion ID: 1709949
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Weighing Mitigation

Text: First, Tanzi claims that the trial court abused its discretion in assigning some weight to most of the mitigating circumstances it determined were established. The trial court considered each of the twenty-three mitigating circumstances supplied by Tanzi, and the trial court provided detailed factual findings as to reasons or unique circumstances upon which it based its evaluation of each mitigating circumstance. The trial court's findings are supported by competent, substantial evidence in the record. Further, the trial court detailed the weight it decided to afford to each established mitigator with the one exception of the substance abuse mitigator. Having expressly considered each mitigator and the unique circumstances of this case, we find that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in weighing the mitigating circumstances.