Opinion ID: 1518773
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Heading: whether appellant was denied a rational sentencing by the trial court?

Text: Appellant's next argument is that the trial court is constitutionally required to consider and set forth in the sentencing report any mitigating factors considered and that its failure to do so is a violation of his Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights, as well as a violation of KRS 532.025. Lockett v. Ohio, 438 U.S. 586, 604, 98 S.Ct. 2954, 2964-65, 57 L.Ed.2d 973, 990 (1978). This argument has, in substance, been addressed by this Court several times. See, e.g., Epperson v. Commonwealth, Ky., 809 S.W.2d 835, 844-45 (1990), cert. denied, 502 U.S. 1037, 112 S.Ct. 885, 116 L.Ed.2d 789 (1992); see also Smith v. Commonwealth, Ky., 734 S.W.2d 437 (1987), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 1036, 108 S.Ct. 762, 98 L.Ed.2d 778 (1988); and Skaggs v. Commonwealth, Ky., 694 S.W.2d 672 (1985), cert. denied, 476 U.S. 1130, 106 S.Ct. 1998, 90 L.Ed.2d 678 (1986). This is not reversible error.