Lucas 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.

• merger required where burglary convictions were based on two entries into the same restaurant, both involved an intent to steal from the restaurant, and the entries were part of a single course of conduct
• “[W]ithout evidence of a legislative intent [as reflected by the plain meaning of the relevant text] to allow multiple punishments for the same course of conduct, acts that constitute a continuing criminal course of conduct are not punishable separately.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).