State v. Graves’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “This section represents a more substantial departure from the common law. It provides that, if an actor adopts or pursues a single “scheme or course of conduct” for acquiring property or services in a manner that constitutes theft, he may be convicted of a felony even though he is careful to limit the theft from each individual or at each time and place to a misdemeanor amount. This provision reflects the determination that the reprehensibility of an actor, and thus the appropriate penal sanction, is not necessarily determined by the amount he steals at a single moment from a single person ... Of course, the prosecution will have to allege and prove each separate “offense,” but the value of several items can now be combined for jurisdictional and punishment purposes. Searcy III and Patterson, Practice Commentary, Tex.Penal Code Ann. sec. 81.-09.”

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

2. “When amounts are obtained in violation of this chapter pursuant to one scheme or continuing course of conduct, whether from the same or several sources, the conduct may be considered as one offense and the amounts aggregated in determining the grade of the offense.”

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