Hill v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “Whether Hale v. State, 630 So.2d 521 (Fla. 1993), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 115 S.Ct. 278 , 130 L.Ed.2d 195 (1994), precludes under all circumstances the imposition of consecutive sentences for crimes arising from a single criminal episode for habitual felony or habitual violent felony offenders?”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 660 So. 2d 1393 - State v. Parker · Simmons v. State

2. “[w]e find nothing in the language of the habitual offender statute which suggests that the legislature also intended that, once the sentences from multiple crimes committed during a single criminal episode have been enhanced through the habitual offender statutes, the total penalty should then be further increased by ordering that the sentences run consecutively.”

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