881 So. 2d 721 - Clines v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “such a sentence violates neither double jeopardy protections nor legislative intent.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 912 So. 2d 550 - Clines v. State · 964 So. 2d 855 - Jones v. State

2. “Here, the Legislature had little choice but to use the disjunctive [to express its conjunctive meaning]. Had the Legislature used the conjunctive `and,' the statute would have been hopelessly confusing and would have suggested that the trial court must make all three sentencing determinations, a situation that would be impossible on the facts of many cases.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 912 So. 2d 550 - Clines v. State

3. “[T]he entire statutory scheme of section 775.084 readily contemplates, in the case of a single criminal charge, a sentence under the habitual felony offender provision, with the mandatory minimum term provisions provided for by the violent career criminal designation.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 912 So. 2d 550 - Clines v. State