Rickels v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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13 state decisions

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1. “The trial court found that [appellant] “intentionally and knowingly [went] within three hundred (300) feet of a premise where children 17 years or younger congregate or gather, to wit: Sidney Lanier Elementary School.” The evidence at the revocation hearing demonstrated that [appellant] moved into a home around the corner from an elementary school. A special speed-lim it sign noting the presence of a school zone and equipped with a flashing yellow light was visible from the front door of [appellant’s] home. The distance from [appellant’s] front door to the child safety zone (i.e., the property line of the school) (footnote omitted) was within the 300 feet limitation imposed by the conditions of his probation. Although the witnesses who testified as to the measurements they took did not see [appellant] entering or exiting his home through the front door or otherwise using the front area of the property, the trial court could reasonably infer that [appellant] used the front door or entered the front yard of his property at some point while residing there. (Citation omitted). We conclude that the facts adduced at the hearing lend support to the trial court’s finding that Rickels went within 300 feet of the elementary school, and therefore this finding did not constitute an abuse of discretion. Accordingly, Rickels’s remaining issue is overruled and we affirm the decision of the trial court revoking his probation.”

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