State v. Maghee

How courts have described this case

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

• holding amendment of drug possession offense from class “C” to class “B” felony did not charge “wholly new or different offense”
• concluding where “the amendment charged the same offense but with a large amount of drugs involved resulting in a potentially more severe sentence,” it did not charge a wholly new or different offense
• affirming defendant’s sentence of “five years for failure to affix a drug tax stamp”
• “An amendment prejudices the substantial rights of the defendant if it creates such surprise that the defendant would have to change trial strategy to meet the charge in the amended information.”
• noting general objections fail to preserve error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).