State of Arizona v. Powers

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the objective behind the law prohibiting drivers from leaving the scene of a collision “is satisfied by allowing only a single charge for each accident scene regardless of the number of victims”
• “The plain and ordinary meaning of the terms “accident” and “scene of an accident” do not depend on the number of victims.”
• “Multiplicity occurs when an indictment charges a single offense in multiple counts . . . rais[ing] the potential for multiple punishments, which implicates double jeopardy.”
• judicial expansion of statutory language can violate defendant’s due process right to fair warning of proscribed conduct
• issues raised for first time at oral argument are untimely and will not be considered
• where defendant was charged and convicted of same offense twice, and convictions were therefore multiplieitous, court of appeals properly vacated one of defendant’s convictions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).