Perkins v. Allstate Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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• refusing to resurrect by judicial fiat a standardless statute prohibiting ‘crime[s] against nature’
• refusing to resurrect by judicial fiat a standardless statute prohibiting “crime[s] against nature”
• “[a] defendant has no constitutional right to elect which of two applicable statutes shall be the basis of his indictment and prosecution”
• where prior misconduct evidence is properly admitted, trial court does not have to determine by heightened standard that prior acts actually occurred and jury is properly left to determine “their commission and consequent weight”
• consistent with disjunctive \options\ provided by statute, prosecutor has \broad discretion\ to charge arson offenses in way that precludes lesser included offense instruction or requires mandatory minimum sentence upon conviction
• ‘‘[t]he potential of a mistrial, upon a deadlock, [is] often regarded as coercive ‘‘

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).