Opinion ID: 1197916
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Employment and Military History

Text: Although testimony showed that defendant was a reliable and hard worker, he has been unable to hold down a job for any significant amount of time, and he was frequently unemployed. Therefore, defendant has failed to prove that his employment history is entitled to mitigating weight. Defendant also served two 4-year enlistments in the military and received an honorable discharge. The trial court gave defendant's military service some mitigating value. We believe that defendant's military history is a mitigating circumstance, but conclude that it is not sufficient to call for leniency. See State v. Lavers, 168 Ariz. 376, 396, 814 P.2d 333, 353, cert. denied, 502 U.S. 926, 112 S.Ct. 343, 116 L.Ed.2d 282 (1991).