Harris v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “Here, our review is hampered by the fact that the evidence admitted at the trial prior to Harris’ [sic] guilty pleas has not been included in the record pre sented to this court. On the basis of the record before us, neither of Harris’s acts of sexual misconduct was a necessary prerequisite for the other. Indeed, although Harris had sexual intercourse with each of the girls on the same evening and in the same apartment, there was no other connection between the events such that a complete account of one cannot be given without referring to the details of the other.”

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

2. “episode means an occurrence or series of occurrences and developments which may be viewed as distinctive and apart although part of a larger or more comprehensive series.”

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

3. “complete account of one charge [could not] be related without referring to details of the other charge[s]”

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