State v. McInnes’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “"[W]e apprehend that that tribunal may wish to re-examine the question relative to the right of the defendant to file a cross appeal because if the four charges are considered as in effect four distinct prosecutions which could proceed independently, under four separate informations, then the defendant for all practical purposes is undertaking to raise by cross appeal, in an appeal properly taken by the State from a decision affecting two counts, or prosecutions, a ruling made in a different and independent prosecution." 147 So.2d at 521 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 444 So. 2d 434 - State v. Williams