State v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “Because we hold in favor of defendant on the basis of the statutory test for 'criminal episode' in ORS 131.505(4), we do not reach defendant's second argument, regarding whether the parallel 'cross-relation' test for 'criminal episode' is satisfied.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 293 Or. App. 460 - State v. Taylor

2. “A sentence that imposes probation when the presumptive sentence is prison, or vice versa , is known as a 'dispositional departure.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 290 Or. App. 296 - State v. Frinell

3. “The question of whether events constitute a single criminal episode is a question of law ***.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 293 Or. App. 460 - State v. Taylor