McCann v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “The Indiana statutes defining the offense charged, including the elements contained therein, insofar as applicable, read as follows: A person who operates a motor vehicle after the person's driving privileges are forfeited for life, commits operating a motor vehicle after license forfeited for life, a Class C felony[.] The elements of this offense are that the defendant must be: 1. A person who 2. operates a motor vehicle 8. after the person's driving privileges are forfeited for life.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wooden v. State

2. “) at their home at 38th Street and College Avenue in Indianapolis. After McCann left, A.L. went upstairs and fell asleep in her bed with the television on. When A.L. awoke McCann was in her bedroom. McCann tried to pull her covers off and told her he had a gun that he would use if she was not quiet. Additionally, McCann touched A.L.'s breasts and stated”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McCann v. State

3. “attempted murder is a special case, deserving special treatment.... It is the higher sentence range for attempted murder in combination with the ambiguity involved in the proof of that crime that justifies the result in Spradlin and distinguishes other types of attempt prosecutions that involve either stringent penalties, or ambiguity, but not both.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Henderson v. State