Avery v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “(a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly: (5) possesses, obtains, or attempts to possess or obtain a controlled substance or an increased quantity of a controlled substance: (A) by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception, or subterfuge; [or] (B) through use of a fraudulent prescription form; or (C)through use of a fraudulent oral or telephonically communicated prescription ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Avery, Billie Jean

2. “The testimony is that the prescription form is not fraudulent. It is the prescription form of the doctor. What the testimony has been is that the prescription, itself, that the doctor wrote on his form was altered .... There’s no evidence that [the appellant] committed this fraud by using a fraudulent prescription form ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Avery, Billie Jean

3. “Appellant, Billie Jean Avery, was charged by indictment with obtaining an increased quantity of a Schedule II controlled substance through the use of a fraudulent prescription form, a second-degree felony. 8”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Avery, Billie Jean