State v. Reynolds’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The majority on the court of appeal panel... sought to effectuate the rule that consolidation of separately charged misdemeanor offenses for trial, as opposed to joinder of the offenses in a single bill of information, may provide a defendant with the right to a jury trial in cases in which the aggregate punishment that could be imposed exceeds six months imprisonment and fines over the amount of $1,000... However, in the present case, the state and defense agreed to try the misdemeanor offenses together in a single proceeding with punishment capped at six months imprisonment and $1,000 in fines, i.e., as if the state had, with the concurrence of defendant, filed a superceding bill of information joining all of the offenses together under La. C. Cr. P. art. 493, thereby capping the aggregate punishment that could be imposed at six months imprisonment and a fine of $1,000 as a matter of La. C. Cr. P. art. 493.1... It does not appear from the agreement that consolidation of the offenses for trial took place, or would have taken place, independently of the stipulation with regard to the sentencing cap. The defendant had no right to a jury trial on the misdemeanor offenses separately charged... and joinder of the offenses in a single superceding bill of information (or its functional equivalent) under the sentencing cap imposed by La. C. Cr. P. art. 493.1 also would not deprive defendant of his right to a jury. Id.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Campos