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People v. Cox

Citations

  • 291 N.E.2d 1
  • 53 Ill. 2d 101
  • 1972 Ill. LEXIS 267

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  • applying a rule of lenity when the judiciary is asked “to make each stick in a faggot a single criminal unit [(Bell v. United States, 349 U.S. 81, 83, 99 L. Ed. 905, 910, 75 S. Ct. 620, 622 (1955)
  • violation of the same sexual offense statute in two different ways in one episode constitutes one offense
  • violation of the same sexual offense statute in two different ways in one episode constitutes one offense

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Judges: William J. Scott

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