Avery, Billie Jean

How courts have described this case

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• observing that words not defined by statute “are used in their ordinary and common sense”
• prosecutors have discretion to charge the offense that best fits the conduct or has the most appropriate punishment range
• “When statutory provisions overlap . . ., there is no inherent reason to infer that the Legislature intended them to be mutually exclusive.”
• prosecutors have discretion to charge the offense that best fits the conduct or has the most appropriate punishment range
• overlapping statutory provisions should not be held mutually exclusive

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).