People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions

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1. “Defendants allege that provisions of the Penal Code which label particular offenses which are punishable by up to two years in state prison as 'misdemeanors' conflict with provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure which define offenses punishable by more than one year in the state prison as 'felonies' and that the Penal Code label should control.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People of Michigan v. Tarone Devon Washington

2. “It is obvious that the Penal Code definitions apply only to the Penal Code. Similarly, the definitions of the Code of Criminal Procedure are limited in application to that code. To apply the definition of misdemeanor in one statute to the operations of the other statute would defeat the purposes of the other statute.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. People of Michigan v. Tarone Devon Washington

3. “The label placed upon an offense in the Penal Code is just as irrelevant in determining statutorily mandated post-conviction procedures in the Code of Criminal Procedure as it is in determining constitutionally mandated post-conviction procedures.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. People of Michigan v. Tarone Devon Washington