Gordon v. the State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that crimes of making a false statement to law enforcement officers and falsely reporting a 15 crime “provide different grades of punishment for the same criminal conduct”
• “[T]he essential requirement of the rule of lenity is that both crimes could be proved with the same evidence.”
• “ ”The fundamental inquiry when making this assessment [was] whether the identical conduct would support a conviction under either of two crimes[.]”
• given the defendant’s conduct as charged in the case, rule of lenity applied between offenses of making a false statement and false report of a crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).