Stewart v. Lynch

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• concluding that defendant’s physical and emotional abuse throughout the course of the night was “continuous and uninterrupted”
• clarifying that crimes will be deemed as having arisen from the same criminal episode upon satisfying either of the two tests
• applying the Boyd test in the context of criminal sentencing history
• “[T]o accept that defendant’s criminal objective changed over the course of the [domestic] abuse would improperly parse defendant’s criminal objective.”
• “[W]hen a defendant’s multiple convictions stem from the same criminal episode, his criminal history score remains the same with respect to all of those convictions.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.)
• the defendant’s multiple acts of domestic abuse that took place in various rooms in the victim’s residence shared a single criminal objective of harassing and injuring the victim over the course of the night

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).