Merlina v. Jejna

How courts have described this case

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

• “Offenses are not the same, and therefore not multiplicitous, if each requires proof of a fact that the other does not.”
• “The principal danger in multiplicity [—] that the defendant will be given multiple sentences for the same offense [—] can be remedied at any time by merging the convictions and permitting only a single sentence.”
• “Charges are multiplicitous if they charge a single offense in multiple counts.”
• same rules of construction apply for court rules as for statutes
• “We determine multiplicity by applying the test enunciated in Blockburger[.]”
• the proper remedy for duplicative sentences is merger

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).