Bell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “[n]o person who has been convicted in this state or elsewhere of committing or attempting to commit a crime of violence shall own a pistol or have one in his or her possession or under his or her control.” Indeed, the record on appeal demonstrates that Wallace has, at least, four prior felony convictions for first-degree robbery, an offense that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wallace v. State