In re the appointment of a new trustee in the estate of Shanley

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• concluding that: (i) the phrase “any firearm” in the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by convicted felons “does not imply a specific quantity; the quantity is without limit”; and (ii
• vacating the defendant’s four convictions for being a felon in possession of a firearm when the trial court erred in failing to merge them for sentencing purposes and remanding the case for the trial court to convict and resentence him on only one of those counts
• “Whether a particular course of conduct involves one or more distinct ‘offenses’ under the statute depends on this legislative choice.”
• “whether a single course of conduct can result in multiple convictions and sentences under the same statute” implicates the doctrine of substantive double jeopardy, “and the ‘unit of prosecution,’ or the precise act criminalized by the statute, must be identified”

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