People v. Buie

How courts have described this case

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• a battery that occurs in public poses a greater threat to the community than battery that is not committed in public and therefore is a valid aggravating factor
• a battery that occurs in public poses a greater threat to the community than battery that is not committed in public and therefore is a valid aggravating factor
• the legislature “intended to protect the public safety by making more serious a battery done in a public place, because it ‘constitutes a more serious threat to the community than a simple battery.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).