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  • Dixon v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-06-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fred R. Simpson, Rome, David Balser, James D. Dantzler Jr., James A. Washburn and Thomas B. Bosch McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh E. Patterson, District Attorney, John F. McClellan Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Brenda J. Bernstein The Bernstein Firm PC, Nicholas A. Lotito, Atlanta, Michael E. Paulhus, William D. Iverson, Claire G. Kunstling Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C.
    Case Number: S04A0072

    The defendant was entitled to the lessor of two punishments under the rule of lenity because the two statutes-misdemeanor statutory rape and felony child molestation-are in con

  • Dixon v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fred R. Simpson, Rome, David Balser, James D. Dantzler Jr., James A. Washburn and Thomas B. Bosch McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh E. Patterson, District Attorney, John F. McClellan Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Brenda J. Bernstein The Bernstein Firm PC, Nicholas A. Lotito, Atlanta, Michael E. Paulhus, William D. Iverson, Claire G. Kunstling Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C.
    Case Number: S04A0072

    The defendant was entitled to the lessor of two punishments under the rule of lenity because the two statutes-misdemeanor statutory rape and felony child molestation-are in con