State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “in lieu of’ shows a legislative intent to give the trial court alternative, but not cumulative, options). In addition to committing a probable cause offense, Murrin committed other violations of community supervision. The State could simply have stricken the probable cause violation from the motion to modify community supervision and later filed an information. Because the State elected to include the probable cause violation in the motion to modify, and due to the Legislature’s use of the”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 85 Wash. App. 754 - State v. Murrin