State v. Garr’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
May 2017
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Schrier · 515 So. 2d 55 - Kinder v. State · State v. Blair · State v. Wallace · 121 Wis. 2d 237 - State v. Johnson
Most-quoted passages
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“In Iowa we have no common-law crime; the appropriate statute defines the public offense by a particular description of the act or acts constituting the offense. State v. Wallace, 259 Iowa 765, 772 , 145 N.W.2d 615, 620 (1966). In the present case, Iowa Code section 714.1 defines theft and specifies the acts constituting the offense. On the other hand, the degree of the offense denotes a division or classification of one specific offense into grades. Black’s Law Dictionary 512 (rev. 4th ed. 1968). Accordingly, Iowa Code section 714.2 classifies the degrees of the offense of theft by specifying the value or location of the stolen property without defining the crime. Consequently, we conclude that specifying the degrees of theft does not change theft into a different offense; it merely provides a system of categorizing degrees of theft in order to classify the crime for sentencing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Grindele
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