State v. Decker

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a prior non-Arizona conviction, to be used as a prior felony conviction under the statute, must both be for an offense that would constitute a felony in Arizona, and be classified as a felony in the other jurisdiction
• holding for purposes of sentence enhancement under A.R.S. § 13-604, statute underlying foreign conviction must be compared to Arizona statute in effect at time of offense in deciding whether offense would have been punishable as a felony if committed in Arizona
• statutory language determines whether out-of-state conviction may be used to enhance sentencing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Langlands
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-06-30· cited 22×
• State v. Kuntz
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2004-10-28· cited 17×
• State v. Song
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1993-09-28· cited 7×