Landers v. Arkansas Department of Education

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the “or” used in the forcible rape statute is disjunctive and provides for two alternative sentencing options
• stating that the State could not concede that the defendant had been subject to double jeopardy
• stating that the State could not concede that the defendant had been subject to double jeopardy
• noting that the “or” used in the forcible rape statute is disjunctive and provides for two alternative sentencing options
• defining an offense as lesser-included “if it is impossible to commit the greater without necessarily committing the lesser”
• observing that “[a] life sentence and a sentence of a term of years ... have different consequences for parole,” such as that under section 558.019.4, for parole purposes “a life sentence is calculated to be 30 years, while any sentence greater than 75 years is calculated to be 75 years”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).