Tipton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “a habitual offender finding is merely a jury's determination that, following a defendant's conviction for one or more felonies, the defendant has, in addition, accumulated two prior unrelated felony convictions. In the case of a habitual offender proceeding following multiple convictions, the jury finding of habitual offender status is not linked to any particular conviction.... [Thus,] a habitual offender status following a trial resulting 'in multiple felony convictions is independent of each particular felony conviction and applies equally to all such convie-tions.”

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   e.g. State v. Jones