Stephens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2005
most recently cited
4 state decisions
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Relies on Sanders v. State
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“(a) For the purpose of this section, “report” means any communication, either written or oral, sworn or unsworn. (b) A person commits the offense of filing a false report if he files a report with any law enforcement agency or prosecuting attorney’s office of any alleged criminal wrongdoing on the part of another knowing that such report is false. (c)(1) Filing a false report is a Class D felony if: (A) The crime is a capital offense, Class Y felony, Class A felony, or Class B felony; or (B) The agency or office to whom the report is made has expended in excess of five hundred dollars ($500) in order to investigate said report, including the costs of labor; or (C) Physical injury results to any person as a result of the false report; or (D) The false report is made in an effort by the person filing said false report to conceal his own criminal activity; or (E) The false report results in another person being arrested. (2) Otherwise, filing a false report is a Class A misdemeanor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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