State v. Blouvett

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that crimes committed within a one-month span but adjudicated contemporaneously could not enhance each other as regards to range
• reiterating that “it has long been a general rule of statutory construction that ambiguity in criminal statutes must be construed in favor of the defendant”
• construing the statutory term “prior conviction” to mean “a conviction that has been adjudicated prior to the commission of the more recent offense for which sentence is to be imposed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).