948 So. 2d 954 - Capron v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
October 2017
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Alabama v. Smith · 773 So. 2d 7 - Armstrong v. Harris · 780 So. 2d 17 - Gordon v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“Whoever, in the course of one criminal transaction or episode, commits an act or acts which constitute one or more separate criminal offenses, upon conviction and adjudication of guilt, shall be sentenced separately for each criminal offense; and the sentencing judge may order the sentences to be served concurrently or consecutively. For the purposes of this subsection, offenses are separate if each offense requires proof of an element that the other does not, without regard to the accusatory plead-' ing or the proof adduced at trial. (b) The intent of the Legislature is to convict and sentence for each criminal offense committed in the course of one criminal episode or transaction and not to allow the principle of lenity ... to determine legislative intent. Exceptions to this rule of construction are: 1. Offenses which require identical elements of proof....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“oral, anal, or vaginal penetration by, or union with, the sexual organ of another or the anal or vaginal penetration of another by any other object.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“All trial errors . . . must be preserved for appeal by making a contemporaneous objection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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