State v. Schwehm’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “a statute or provision of the law which delineates an affirmative duty upon the official.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Harris · 973 So. 2d 900 - State v. Boyte

2. “According to Belinda Durr, who worked as defendant's secretary for approximately five months at the end of 1992, when the office received cash for litter fines, defendant used the money in a variety of ways, dividing it with the constable "for office expenses or to go to lunch or whatever they wanted to do with it." Durr testified that when she asked about the fines, and about whether the state received any of the money, defendant told her that "what they don't know doesn't hurt them." Maureen Perry, who also worked as a secretary for the defendant, told jurors that whatever cash was received in the office for litter fines or fees for issuing peace bonds would be "disburse[d] at the end of the week." Perry testified that when she asked the defendant about the litter fines, he replied that "it was his money and he said he could do what he wanted." The defendant made a similar statement to Mario Ventura, president of the St. Tammany Parish Justice of the Peace Association, in the early spring of 1992, when both men were attending a conference of justices of the peace in Lafayette. Ventura testified that when he asked the defendant whether he was turning over the litter fines to the parish the defendant replied that he was absorbing the money collected "in court costs ... eating it up in expenses." When Ventura asked how he was doing that, the defendant added, "Well, you're a smart guy, figure it out." ... [T]he defendant's statements to Durr, Perry, and Ventura, and especially ”

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

3. “[l]ack under state and local law of any time period for remittance of the litter fines by justice of the peace courts, together with the confusion interjected into the law by the conflicting 1992 enactments regarding LSA-R.S. 25:1112(A)....”

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