MADDOX, Justice.
Although the petitioner, Oscar Eugene Kent, Jr., presents several issues for this Court's consideration, the only one we address is whether the trial judge, when he imposed a harsher sentence on this defendant following a second trial on the same charge, was required to affirmatively state on the record his reasons for imposing the harsher sentence. Based on established precedents of the United States Supreme Court, we conclude that the United States...
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