Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "SCOTUS: 10 Felonies at the Same Time Only Count as One" video.

@peope1976 Nothing is ever clear. One of the reasons this happens is that it's generally lawyers that are writing the laws, either lawyers turned politician or lawyers working for lobbying groups. If they handed proposed laws to laypeople, most of the ambiguity would be caught prior to being passed into law. But, that would take a bunch of time, and would lead to the laws actually benefitting people, so that's never going to happen.
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I think that's fairly clear, but due to the weird wording, it's understandable why a lower court would think that it allowed for the enhancement. I do think the uninterrupted part is rather important.
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@geoffstrickler It's going to work for somebody if simply not reoffending is the standard, but arguably the sentenced handed out was inappropriately harsh. Most don't remain out of prison in part due to the lack of meaningful reform programs in prison and the lack of opportunities once out. What's more, we've got higher rates of violent crime than in Europe, but they don't need the kind of harsh penalties that we've got to make it so.
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@mt11235 It makes sense in an incredibly legalistic fashion. Each storage unit has property belonging to different people, so that would be a different crime, so years later, there's been felony theft from 10 different people, which could be consider a string of 10 felonies and different occasions. It's one of the reasons why people get charged with multiple counts of the same thing. They may have stolen from 10 people, and it's 10 different thefts, so 10 different counts.
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Location is a somewhat ambiguous term globally. In some cultures here is literally right where you're standing, in the US if you say that you're here, they may mean that they're literally here, at the door or in the parking lot. In this case, if it's literally right where they're standing at the unit, but if you don't need to get into a vehicle to get to the next location, it's reasonably to say that it's the same location. In this case, it was an uninterrupted crime spree at the same facility, so it seems reasonable that it would be one occasion. Sort of like how we wouldn't consider a mass murderer to be a serial killer that killed everybody in one uninterrupted go. Different people's rights were infringed on in the mayhem, but it was one occasion rather than multiple occasions of a single murder. And we'd probably extend that even if they jumped in their car of fled on foot murdering as they went.
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