State v. Lemons’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “minimal information” that was necessary to prove the prior offense and focused upon an identification of the court in which the prior conviction occurred. Id. Here, apart from identifying the court in which the 1990 conviction occurred, the certified driver record also cited the specific criminal code section that Wheeler was charged under, the date Wheeler was alleged to have committed the 1990 DUI offense with which he was charged, Wheeler's plea to the criminal charge, and the date upon which Wheeler was found guilty. The information from Exhibit 9 certainly qualifies as more than”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State of Missouri v. Robert E. Wheeler

2. “in that the trial court did not find that [Wheeler] was a persistent DWI offender, and State’s Exhibit No. 9 does not show on its face a valid judgment of guilt or a plea of guilty for an intoxication-related traffic offense, so [Wheeler] was sentenced in excess of the maximum sentence authorized by law when he was sentenced to four years in prison because the most he could have received without a second prior intoxication-related offense was one year in jail.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State of Missouri v. Robert E. Wheeler

3. “Regarding the claim that the state failed to prove that he had “pleaded guilty to or had been found guilty of’ four prior DWI or BAC offenses, Mr. Collins does not recognize that a guilty plea or a finding of guilt is a prerequisite to a conviction. Mr. Collins’s driving record, which plainly listed eight prior convictions, establishes that Mr. Collins pleaded guilty to or was found guilty to [sic] those offenses.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Mitchell